From international bestselling author Cristina Caboni comes an exquisite and engrossing novel of two women, centuries apart, bound by a love of books and a longing for self-discovery.
With each new revelation, Clarice is giving Sofia the courage to find her own voice and hope for the future she thought was lost..
She\'s determined to make Clarice\'s voice heard.
With the help of book collector Tomaso Leoni, Sofia connects the threads of Clarice\'s past, page by page, line by line, town by town.
A confession that now crosses centuries to touch the heart of a stranger.
Within three separate volumes, Clarice bound her own hidden story filled with pain, longing, and love beyond all reason.
Two hundred years ago, Clarice von Harmel defied the constraints of family and society to engage in a profession forbidden to women.
Slipped covertly into the endpapers is an intriguing missive, the first part of a secret...from one bookBinder to another.
Then an antique German edition takes her breath away.
In this art she finds refuge from her crumbling marriage and the feeling that her once-vibrant life is slipping away.
With her delicate touch, Sofia Bauer restores books to their original splendor.
From international bestselling author Cristina Caboni comes an exquisite and engrossing novel of two women, centuries apart, bound by a love of books and a longing for self-discovery
