My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Set in 1950s Naples, two girls from a poor neighbourhood, bound by a lifelong, competitive friendship
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A Girl Returned
Donatella Di Pietrantonio
1970s Abruzzo, Italy: at 13, a girl is sent back to the poor birth family she never knew
- Literary fiction
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- Melancholic
- Coming of age
- Family saga
- Steady
- Short read
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