THE ITALIAN GIRL

By Lucinda Riley

Synopsis

Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring but obsessive love for each other - a love that will ultimately affect the lives of those closest to them. For, as Rosanna slowly discovers, their unison is haunted by irreversible events from the past…

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Narrator	Eva Alexander
Length	15hrs 30mins
Catalogue No.	13771
Publisher	Clipper Audio; 2014

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