The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel | 
pickI would have loved this novella more if I hadn‘t read it during a sleepless night. Now that I finished it I still feel numb and is does deserve all the feelings! It‘s a very carefully created love story, the words well chosen, the Tuscan scenery vividly described and wonderful dialogues between two people who should be together.
I am glad I read it, like @KarenUK thanks to the mention of it in Writers & Lovers.
#LitsyBitsy #Sunset
#WeeklyForecast 34/20
As said The Eighth Life is in progress, as is Somebody I Used to Know. Next will be the tagged one, that got high praise in Lily King‘s great Writers & Lovers. Also I have a Dutch one lined up for #ReadingEurope2020 (Belgium). Looking forward to all of them!
pickThis lovely novella, is as a Time magazine review claimed, near perfect.
The writing is clear and precise and oh so gorgeous. It feels like every word has been selected with so much care, and so much is said with so little. As an English woman and an Italian man fall in love in Italy, I was seduced by the beautiful language.
I‘m so glad the the main character from King‘s ‘Writers and lovers‘ ,who loved this book, put it on my radar. Loved it!
Up next..... this one for #popsummer20 for #dreamsummerdestination i.e. the Italian countryside....
This 1966 novella by multi-award-winning author Shirley Hazzard has been called a ‘near perfect masterpiece‘ so to say my hopes are high is a bit of an understatement! 😂
I was led to it by the main character in Lily King‘s ‘Writers & Lovers‘ naming it as a favorite of hers...
So 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
