Tell it to the Skies
by Erica James
Book of the Month: May 2008
Erica James’ Tell It to the Skies is a gripping and emotional tale of first love, loss and the search for happiness.
When Lydia Turner catches a glimpse of a familiar face in a crowd, she thinks she has imagined it. How can a man she last saw nearly thirty years ago in England be here, now, in the middle of Venice – the place she has made her home?
The collision of her past and present life is not something she ever expected, and forces her to think about her childhood and adolescence - marred by abuse, cruelty and the deaths of family and friends. But also made joyful through the tenderness and excitement of her first love. Someone she thought she would never see again . . .
Lydia faces up to the contrast of the two parts of her life – the happy years in Venice, surrounded by beauty and the love of her adored adopted daughter, set against the misery of her earlier life in a grey English town. And as she does so, the version of the truth she has always accepted begins to change.
What will happen to Lydia when she starts to unravel the painful secrets of her past? And how do those very secrets threaten the promise of Happy Ever After?
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