Tiziana Manoretti is an only child in her late twenties blessed with loving parents, a promising career, and a best friend who fiercely protects her, but when her mother falls seriously ill the relationship between her parents becomes suddenly strained as a carefully hidden family secret is revealed and Tiziana's seemingly idealistic world is turned upside down in this fiction novel.
Tiziana Manoretti is an only child in her late twenties blessed with loving parents, a promising career, and a best friend who fiercely protects her. When her mother falls seriously ill and the relationship between her parents becomes suddenly strained, a carefully hidden family secret is revealed and Tiziana’s seemingly idealistic world is turned upside down.
After discovering she was born in a Naples orphanage and subsequently given up for adoption, Tiziana sets out for the small town of Gaeta in an attempt to find her birth parents. Meanwhile, her best friend Christopher is sending her mixed messages, causing her to wonder if there is more to their relationship than just companionship. As she becomes intertwined with a handful of interesting characters who help her uncover her past, Tiziana needs to decide whether her feelings for Christopher are deeper than she realizes. She discovers herself and others all while her family’s resilience and love for one another is tested when confronted with a shocking truth.
The answers lie in a box found in a closet in Italy, and Tiziana must determine if she wants to embrace the heartache and the pain from her past in order to learn forgiveness and find peace in the future.
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Caterina continued staring at the box, and suppressed memories came
flooding back, invading her peaceful mind.
Will this box ever find its way into another home, other than mine?
The contents of the box were items that only she and her sister had ever
seen. No one else in their family knew of their existence, not even William. Now
that her sister was gone, she knew that this box could only be passed on to one
other person—a person who did not even know it existed.
Caterina herself had never met this person, did not know what she looked
like, where she lived, or what she was doing with her life. She only knew her age
and that she was a woman.
Wherever you are, I hope you are happy.
Caterina knew she had no right to look for this woman. She had made a
promise. She could only wait as she had been doing for the last two decades for
this person to come to her.
And that could mean waiting forever.
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Tiziana Manoretti has it all, wonderful job, great friends and family, a promising future. Or so she
thinks; one fateful day her entire perfect world is turned upside down. The wonderful connection
she has with her family is ripped to pieces along with her heart when she finds out that she has been
living a lie her entire life. Each day becomes more and more strained until she decided to get away
and search for the thing she feels she is missing. As some relationships fall apart others offer hope
for a future.
“The villa was a place of refuge, a paradisiacal retreat tucked in among the verdant hills of the
ancient little town of Gaeta, facing one of the most beautiful Italian shorelines along the Gulf of
Naples. It was known in the Neapolitan dialect as A Villete Picerelle (pronounced pee-chu-rielle),
meaning ‘the little villa.’” As Laura Fabiani describes the little villa it seems as if only the most
wonderful of things should take place there. This little villa that seems so serene is where the box
that holds the answers to all of Tiziana’s questions is located. Finding the inner strength to face her
past is the only way Tiziana will be able to embrace her future.
“Daughter of Mine” is one of those pieces of work that will have you holding onto every last word.
Delving into this family’s intricate relationship reveals the pain that choices can inflict even when
those choices are made out of love. A book that would be highly recommended to readers,
“Daughter of Mine” by Laura Fabiani is a passionate example of the strength of family love.
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