UNDER A SARDINIAN SKY

Sometimes a family’s deepest silences hide the most powerful secrets.For Mina a London-based travel writer the enigmatic silence surrounding her aunt Carmela has become a personal obsession.Carmela disappeared from her Italian hometown long ago and is mentioned only in fragments and whispers. Mina has resisted prying respectful of her family’s Sardinian reserve. But now with her mother battling cancer it’s time to learn the truth.In 1952 Simius is a busy Sardinian town surrounded by fertile farms and orchards. Carmela Chirigoni a farmer’s daughter and talented seamstress is engaged to Franco son of the area’s wealthiest family. Everyone agrees it’s a good match. But Carmela’s growing doubts about Franco’s possessiveness are magnified when she meets Captain Joe Kavanagh.Joe an American officer stationed at a local army base is charismatic intelligent and married. Hired as his interpreter Carmela resolves to ignore her feelings knowing that any future together must bring upheaval and heartache to both families.As Mina follows the threads of Carmela’s life to uncover her fate she will discover a past still deeply alive in the present revealing a story of hope sacrifice and extraordinary love.