One Italian Summer - Rebecca Serle

Fiction

Rating: 7/10

With each book this author burrows into a different type of love story, this one about the love between a mother and a daughter. And what happens when one is lost to the other.

Katy is left reeling and unmoored after the death of her beloved mother. She makes the life changing decision to go on their planned trip of a lifetime to Positano, a stunning and magical town where her mother spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father.

While Katy’s certainly expected to feel connected to her mother on this trip, she never in her wildest imagination thought she would happen across the thirty-year-old version of her, sun dappled and vibrantly alive.  

A truly wonderful twist of a tale that allows a daughter grappling with unspeakable grief to see her mother as her own person, bright and carefree and more than merely an unselfish and devoted caregiver.  While not necessarily a painless exploration, all daughters should be so blessed.

If that’s not reason enough to pick up this book, it’s also an enchanting way to feed your wanderlust with the author’s skill in painting a picture of Italy fit for the page!

Thanks to NetGalley, Atria Books and the author for the advanced readers copy.

Book Pairing(s): In Five Years by Rebecca Serle, When All Is Said by Anne Griffin, Summer Island by Kristin Hannah