THE HOUSE BY THE SEA
Book ID/图书代码： 03540011B46307
English Summary/英文概要： An irresistibly compelling from the internationally bestselling author Ten-year-old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa that overlooks the sea just outside her small village. She likes to spy from the crumbling wall into the gardens, and imagine that one day she’ll escape her meagre existence and live there. One day, Dante, the son of the villa’s powerful industrialist owner, invites her inside. From that moment on Floriana knows that her destiny is there, with him. But as they grow up they cross an unseen line, jeopardising the very thing they hold most dear. Decades later and hundreds of miles away, a beautiful old country house hotel on England’s Devon coast has fallen on hard times. Its owner, Marina, advertises for an artist-in-residence to stay the summer and teach the guests how to paint. Rafael Santoro is charismatic and wise, and soon begins to pacify the discord in her family. However, Rafa is not who he seems. He has his own agenda. Whether to destroy, to seduce, or to heal, it is certain to affect them all. Spanning four decades and sweeping from the Italian countryside to the English coast, this new story by Santa Montefiore is a moving and mysterious tale of love, forgiveness and the past revealed.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 國際知名的《The French Gardener/法國花匠》暢銷書作者向讀者呈現了一部劇情複雜，且極具吸引力的小說，讓人們確信愛的力量能夠治癒轉換一切傷痛。
十歲的Floriana被美麗的托斯卡納別墅的華麗外觀所迷住，在這裡她可以俯瞰到自己小村莊的外海。她喜歡爬到搖搖欲墜圍牆上偷窺花園，想像有一天她會逃離她的卑微的村莊，住在這超凡脫塵的世外桃源中。於是有一天，別墅的實力企業業主的兒子Dante，邀請她進入別墅，帶她參觀了迷人的美爾達花園。從那一刻起，Floriana知道她唯一的命運就在那裡，在這Dante的花園裡。然而隨著他們的日漸長大和墜入愛河，他們的這場戀情會導致一場危機，危害的東西他們認為最珍貴的東西。
數十載後，幾百英里以外，英國德文郡海岸美麗的古老鄉間別墅酒店，在2008年的金融危機過後的艱難針紮在生存線上。酒店的所有人，Marina, 為夏季能留住客源，張貼廣告招聘一位美術家，教授客人畫畫。她所雇用的人是具有超凡魅力和聰明的一位藝術家，很快他就開始平復她家庭中的分歧，並改變了酒店的命運。不過，他有他自己的人生規劃。那會造成對Marina摧毀，引誘或治癒嗎？無論他是什麼意圖，他一定改變了Marina的一生。
跨越四個幾十年，從義大利農村到英語的海岸，這部由Santa Montefiore撰寫的一則全新的故事，是一部動人的玄妙的愛情故事，和對於過去的寬恕。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：’The House by the Sea has it all: secrets, mystery, passionate love affairs fueled by drama and determined by fate, and the grace notes of fairytales - evil stepmothers, cranky stepdaughters, and redemption in the wake of understanding in the hands of the great painter Rafa Santoro. Santa Montefiore is a wonder, you will not be able to put this novel down. Unforgettable!’ --Adriana Trigiani
’Like her countrywomen Barbara Taylor Bradford and Penny Vincenzi, Montefiore excels at juxtaposing the opulent with the ordinary in delicately woven tales that seamlessly traverse borders and span decades’ --Booklist
’Santa Montefiore does sweeping canvases of luxury life to a T’ --Daily Mail
’Santa Montefiore is a marvel’ --Sunday Express
About the Author/作者介绍： Santa Montefiore的小說已被譯成二十種語言，並已在歐洲售出300多萬份。她在英國埃克塞特大學學習西班牙語和義大利語。她和她的丈夫，歷史學家Simon Sebag Montefiore和兩個孩子住在倫敦。Santa Montefiore’s novels have been translated into twenty languages and have sold more than three million copies in Europe. She studied Spanish and Italian at Exeter University. She lives in London with her husband, historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, and their two children.
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