Publisher's Synopsis
Four strangers are summoned to the Villa Dante, a beautiful but abandoned house above the Ligurian coast. Although named in the will of the intriguing Beatrice Malaspina, not one of them knows who she is or what the connection might be. Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice; George, an atom scientist unable to face what his skills have created; Marjorie, a detective novelist with writer's block; and Lucius, a Boston banker whose personal life is in chaos. Amongst the faded frescoes, overgrown garden and mediaeval tower, four determined characters begin to change - the sorrow of their wartime experiences growing into hope. But the mysterious Beatrice has a devastating secret to reveal...
