Never Again So Close

Name: Never Again So Close
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Claudia Serrano
ISBN: 9781531868949

Author: Claudia Serrano, Anne Milano Appel

Narrator: Emily Foster

Unabridged: 5 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 02/01/2017

Categories: Fiction, Women, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Where do the pieces of us end up, the ones that we traded for love?Antonia is ready for her life to start. A young woman from a small town in southern Italy, she wants to pursue her long-held dream of writing a novel. But when she moves to Milan and meets the alluring and charismatic Vittorio, he upends her world and changes her priorities. Their whirlwind relationship is as thrilling as it is painful: he doesn’t share Antonia’s faith in love and can’t reciprocate her feelings.In the aftermath of their romance, Antonia rediscovers her passion for writing. It’s what she must do in order to get back to herself. Her words have the power to absorb her pain and transform her spirit. Now, she can find her truth—by insisting on it with pen and paper and by being as patient with herself as she is with her fictional characters.Poignant and beautifully written, Never Again So Close is a story of love, loss, and the profound self-discovery born of a broken heart.

About Claudia Serrano

Claudia Serrano has been working as a bookseller in various Italian cities for the past five years. Born in 1984 in the port city of Bari on the Adriatic Sea, she has always had a way with words. A well-respected freelance journalist, Claudia has won many awards, including the Premio di giornalismo Franco Sorrentino for an investigation into the world of the seeing impaired in Bari. She also holds a bachelor of arts degree in modern philology. Never Again So Close is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ezi on February 15, 2017

How do you rate a book that was written well but you didn't connect with? Do you rate on enjoyment level or the authors prose or how much you enjoyed or didn't enjoy the main characters. I found the writing very lyrical...but I was bored to tears. Ultimately since I wouldn't recommend this book to an......more

Goodreads review by Virginia on May 04, 2017

Some moments of beautiful prose. A broken relationship that anyone can relate to. But a scattered plot and characters I didn't really like.......more

Goodreads review by Kari on March 01, 2017

This was not my favorite book ever. I found it very confusing. I understand the story line - that of a young girl who has her heartbroken by a man she falls in love with that doesn't love her back. However, the story itself does not flow, it is difficult to follow the events - is the reader reading......more

Goodreads review by Suze on January 02, 2017

Antonia is heartbroken. She fell in love with a man who didn't return her feelings. When she moved to Milan she was young and naïve, but ready for new experiences. When she met the alluring Vittorio she fell in love straight away, but that's the last thing she could share with this charming, but oft......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on January 06, 2017

Beautiful prose can't redeem these terrible characters The prose can be lovely in this book, but it fell flat for me as I couldn't get over my frustrations with the characters. There are hints that Antonia could be something more than a vaguely pretty, shy and shallow human being, but she never actua......more