Early one morning

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Label

Early one morning

Statement of responsibility

Virginia Baily

Creator

• Baily, Virginia

Subject

• Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
• General
• Modern & contemporary fiction

Genre

• Modern & contemporary fiction
• Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Language

eng

Summary

A grey dawn in 1943: on a street in Rome, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single moment. One of the women, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee the occupied city for the safety of her grandparents' house in the hills. The other has been herded on to a truck with her husband and their young children, and will shortly be driven off into the darkness. In that endless-seeming moment, before she has time to think about what she is doing, Chiara makes a decision that changes her life for ever

Biographical or historical data

This is Virginia Baily's second novel. Her first, Africa Junction (Harvill Secker), won the McKitterick prize in 2012. She holds a PhD and MA in English from the University of Exeter. She founded and co-edits Riptide, a short-story journal. She is also the editor of the political series of the Africa Research Bulletin. She lives in Exeter, Devon.

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Target audience

general