TWO WOMEN IN ROME BY ELIZABETH BUCHAN
HARDBACK PUBLISHED BY CORVUS 3RD JUNE 2021
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Lottie Archer arrives in Rome newly married and ready for a change as she takes up a job as an archivist. When she discovers a valuable fifteenth-century painting, she is drawn to find out more about Nina Lawrence, the woman who left it behind.
Nina seems to have led a rewarding and useful life, restoring Italian gardens to their full glory following the destruction of World War Two. So why did no one attend her funeral in 1978?
In exploring Nina’s past, Lottie unravels a complicated love story beset by the political turmoil of post-war Italy. And as she edges closer to the understanding Nina, and the city draws her deeper into its life, she is bought up against a past which will come to shape her own future.
MY REVIEW
I have something to confess. One year my mother requested from me for her birthday a book by Elizabeth Buchan. I became a fan of Elizabeth Buchan books since the day I bought my mum a book for her birthday. Now I just love reading books by author Elizabeth Buchan. So lucky for me when I gave my mother a birthday present I gave myself a present too, I actually found a new author to adore.
Two women in Rome really pulled me in. I took my time reading this book as to take in Lottie’s job as I loved reading about it. Her job was something so completely different from what I have ever read before. I literally savoured every page.
I loved reading about Lottie as she was my favourite character. I did feel really sorry for Lottie as she was given away at birth by her mother and she didn’t even know who her father was.
I was attached to the back story in how Lottie found her husband Tom, as it’s wasn’t how I thought Lottie would have found Tom. So I really liked that part as I do like reading the unexpected of how two couples meet.
Tom persuades Lottie to move to Rome and apply for a archivist job, where she finds two boxes one with a label on Nina Maria Lawrence, 1940 – 78 with written the words No know contacts, No known issue. No claimants. And inside is a valuable painting from a manuscript. I was interested from this moment on to find out who was Nina Lawrence.
This is a gorgeous uplifting story that makes a good choice for all book clubs to talk over about some of the many storylines set within in these chapters as so much more happens, I can’t possibly spill and tell you!
ABOUT AUTHOR ELIZABETH BUCHAN
Elizabeth Buchan was a fiction editor at Random House before leaving to write full time. Her novels include the prize-winning Consider the Lily, international bestseller Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, The New Mrs Clifton and The Museum of Broken Promises, Buchan’s short stories are broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in magazines. She has reviewed for the Sunday Times, The Times and the Daily Mail, and has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliot literary prizes. She was a judge for the Whitbread First Novel Award and for the 2014 Costa Novel Award. She is patron of the Guilford Book Festival and co-founder of the Clapham Book Festival.
You can visit Elizabeth Buchan on
https://www.elizabethbuchan.com
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