Lee Langley

Dangerous secrets: Verdigris, by Michele Mari, reviewed

A lonely teenager on holiday in Italy befriends his grandparents’ elderly gardener and slowly coaxes out his painful memories of betrayals and reprisals during the war

Michele Mari. [Getty Images]
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    Michele Mari, translated by Brian Robert Moore

    And Other Stories, pp. 224, £14

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