INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
personalities, mystery and lots of books: volumes that the characters collect, covet and steal.Tooly Zylberberg, the owner of a bookshop in
the Welsh countryside, spends most of her life reading
But who were the people who brought her up? And whatever happened to them?There was Humphrey, a curmudgeon from Russia; there was the
charming but tempestuous Sarah, who hailed from Kenya; and there was Venn, the charismatic leader who transformed Tooly forever
Until, quite suddenly, he vanished.Years later, she had lost hope of ever knowing what took place
Italy, from the 1980s to the Year 2000 to the present, from the end of the Cold War, to the rise and wobble of U.S
The book has been published in 25 languages
