Into the Groves, Michelle Damiani
Into the Groves, Michelle Damiani
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Into the Groves

Author: Michelle Damiani

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Unabridged: 13 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/27/2021

Synopsis

Rumors. Romance. And more than a little espresso.

Santa Lucia has seen a lot of changes, and they've made life for the villagers harder than they ever imagined. Creating a working vineyard. Parenting a teenage daughter. Romance with the mayor. Being gay in a quintessential Italian village. None of these are easy, and everyone is feeling the pressure as their annual festival nears.

The villagers are back for one last passeggiata through the flower-lined alleys of Santa Lucia. Swapping gossip at the local café has never been so delicious until a storm of secrets threatens the village's very survival.

With the rain beginning to fall and the wine turning to vinegar in the barrels, can the villagers bring themselves back into the wavering blue light of Santa Lucia?

About Michelle Damiani

Michelle Damiani is a freelance writer, clinical psychologist, and food lover currently living in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her heart, however, is in Spello, Italy, where she and her family spent a year growing accustomed to being fish out of water, grappling with the hardships of parenting on foreign soil, and ultimately cleaving into the soul of Italian village life. Before that year abroad, Michelle wrote short fiction-one of her stories was awarded first place in the Hook Short Fiction contest, juried by author John Grisham. While in Italy, she used the time that her children were in Italian public schools to write a blog about their experiences. The blog, Il Bel Centro, was awarded the bronze award for best Italian blog by Expatsblog.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Faith

The fourth and final book in the Santa Lucia series is not disappointing but it is sad to say goodbye to a small hilltop village in Umbria and its citizens who have become family and friends! We have entered the homes and lives of extraordinarily normal people who have shared their daily challenges,......more

Goodreads review by Bklover

If you long to travel to Italy, I highly recommend you read Michelle Damiani’s Santa Lucia series, of which "Into the Groves" is the fourth and final book. Even more than the true-to-life tastes and sounds of Umbria, the people are what have kept me coming back to this continuing saga. Santa Lucia m......more

Goodreads review by Susan

The fourth, and final, book in the Santa Lucia series comes quickly on the heels of the third. God Bless the author for thinking of the quarantined population desperate for entertainment. And entertainment it surely is. Bringing back all the favorite characters, continuing their stories and leading......more

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