Poolbeg, my publisher, has been asking about my next book.
Right now I am (mentally if not physically) in the middle North African desert.... researching the Italian Army in WW2. And I think I need a crash course in Italian! Any translators out there?
The book is called 'Two Lives of the Butterfly' and is the story of a combat-stressed soldier and a married Englishwoman.
More info shortly but one thing is clear... the stereotypes about the Italian Army are wide of the mark. Many were brave men who simply didnt want to kill their fellow human beings for an idiot like Mussolini.
More follows....