![]() "In Playing by Heart, Carmela Martino transports readers to the palazzos and salons of eighteenth-century Italy, revealing from one sublimely crafted and evocatively detailed page to the next the lives of two passionate and inspiring sisters-women who are both far ahead of their time and absolutely believable, and who, thanks to Martino’s rich characterization, linger in the mind as dear friends might, long after this beautiful, compelling, and ultimately hopeful novel draws to its rewarding end." ~ Karen Halvorsen Schreck, author of Broken Ground and Sing for Me ~ Mary Jane Beaufrand, author of Primavera and Useless Bay You’ll love Emilia Salvini in her impossible quest to be herself at a time and place when girls had no choices. ~ Louise Hawes, author of The Language of Stars and The Vanishing Point and founding faculty member of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young AdultsĪ virtuoso performance by Carmela Martino. I read this novel in a single sitting! The story of sisters Emilia and Maria Salvini is riveting, rich, and like a lovely piece of music, impossible to forget. ![]() Martino explores the gilded passageways of Hapsburg-era Milan's white aristocracy with technically accomplished descriptions of privilege, luxury, and teenage longing. ![]()
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