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SECRET PAPERS OF MADAME OLIVETTI Annie Vanderbilt’s debut novel, THE SECRET PAPERS OF MADAME OLIVETTI heralds the arrival of a vibrant and compelling new voice in women’s fiction. Her heroine, Lily Crisp, a strong, smart, attractive woman in her fifties, has traveled from Idaho to a coastal village in southern France in order to reassess her life. Her husband of twenty-six years has recently died, and Lily, still processing that loss and complications from a love affair she had ten years earlier, decides to spend a month alone in the French farmhouse that has been in her husband’s family for generations. To make sense of both the past and the present, Lily turns to her Olivetti portable typewriter. It is with Madame Olivetti that she shares a lifetime of secrets, pounding out on creaky keys a story about love and loss, about courage and betrayal, missteps and forgiveness, physical passion and intoxicating love affairs. Vanderbilt writes with assured style and with an unassuming gift for storytelling. From the north woods of Wisconsin, to a French village on the Côte d’Azur, to the rain forest in Chiapas, Mexico, to the central Idaho hills, THE SECRET PAPERS OF MADAME OLIVETTI offers readers an engrossing journey through the complexities of love, death, and new beginnings, and is the sort of book that keeps readers up all night and makes them laugh and cry, hoping that it will never end. |
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