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Angela’s 2025 Year in Books
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Angela Petch
Goodreads Author
Born
in Rinteln, Germany
Member Since
January 2015
Advice for new writers…
Today and tomorrow are the last two days of #RomFicFeb26 when authors have posted aspects of their writing. I’m setting my thoughts here and hoping my experiences will be of use.
I broke my ankle on December 26th and the enforced rest has given me a chance to ponder. Truth be told, I had grown a little jaded and had been debating whether to stop writing. I’ve written eight #histifc novels with my
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The Tuscan Secret
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The Tuscan Girl
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2020
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The Tuscan House
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2021
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4 editions
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The Postcard from Italy
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2022
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A Tuscan Memory
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The Girl Who Escaped
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The Sicilian Secret: Completely gripping and heartbreaking WW2 fiction
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Mavis and Dot
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The Lost Garden
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La chica de la Toscana
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Un libro potente, commovente, triste ma importante. Ho letto questo libro con cuore spezzato. L’italiano non è madrelingua mia ed ho dovuto consultare spesso il dizionario su mio Kindle, ma queste pause non hanno tolto niente dal libro per me. Anzi, m ...more |
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Un libro potente, commovente, triste ma importante. Ho letto questo libro con cuore spezzato. L’italiano non è madrelingua mia ed ho dovuto consultare spesso il dizionario su mio Kindle, ma queste pause non hanno tolto niente dal libro per me. Anzi, m ...more |
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Introspective The writing is lyrical and desperately sad in places. Deep probably but I can't say I always managed to follow the themes. We are all islands in the end, I think Maxwell is imp!ying. I feel I should understand but I don't think I really ...more |
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Angela Petch
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When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy:
"What do we truly leave behind when we die? Do our lives ‘pass into the stones’ of the homes we dwell in? If they do, should the fragments of those lives, if discovered by those who come after us, be revealed? These are some of the questions perceptiv"
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This is a special book and it really resonated with me. I too have a place in Italy where we go to restore our belief in life and to reconnect. Like the author, we too feel we are only custodians of the home we have rescued from crumbling into nothing ...more |
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In a magazine interview of Michael Morpurgo I read recently he states, “In any story I write, there are two key elements. One is people, the other place.” The Croatian Island Library has both. Eva Glyn takes us on a wonderful trip by catamaran round C ...more |
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“young believe they will be young forever, and the old have always been old.”
― The Tuscan Secret
― The Tuscan Secret
“They were very dark times for me, but my doctor was a kind woman and she urged me to continue to write down my feelings. And writing did help a little.”
― The Tuscan Secret
― The Tuscan Secret
“How lovely is youth Which is over far too soon! Grab your happiness while you may: There is no certainty in tomorrow.”
― The Tuscan Secret
― The Tuscan Secret
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“Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”
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“Each time I write a book, every time I face that yellow pad, the challenge is so great. I have written eleven books, but each time I think, ‘Uh oh, they’re going to find out now. I’ve run a game on everybody and they’re going to find me out.”
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