Sicilian teenager and talented sculptress Rosalia Muggifalco, made homeless and an orphan after an Allied bombing raid in 1943, meets Andreas Khuklakis, a wounded Cypriot RAF bomber pilot who seems unwilling to reciprocate her love.
After Andreas dies in action, Rosalia spends the next twelve years obsessed and haunted by memories. Are miracles possible? When Rosalia finds a photo of Andreas, apparently alive and well, pinned to the wall of Saint Rosalia's sanctuary in post-war Palermo, she wonders whether her longing for the dead pilot might have brought him back to life.
Ancient wrongs become very much alive under the rubble, the mafia influence, and the dilapidated palaces of old bourbon-governed Palermo. During a terrifying journey down Palermo's deepest secret underground tunnels, Rosalia faces old and new evil, her father's secret and Andreas' very own.
Against an accurate historical background, and inspired by a true story, Clay Ghosts in Sicily is about the collective anguish of Mediterranean people, their religion and culture, during a time of conflict.
FROM SICILY, WITH LOVE (AND WAR)
Independent publishing house Bank House Media Ltd launches an unusual debut novel, Clay Ghosts in Sicily, this summer.
A creative yet flexible approach to contemporary publishing, Bank House Media selects its titles on the strength of valuable voices being heard: from literature connected with music, film and TV production to the not-readily classifiable novel by a Sicilian author writing in English, her second language.
Clay Ghosts in Sicily, written by Angie Voluti, is about life, love, intrigue and death in Sicily during the Second World War; the intangible but real secret powers of sanctioned political regimes and the legitimate, real force of hidden strengths. It has a whiff of mafia about it, as well as romance and thriller. A noticeable absence of sex is counterbalanced by an underlying current of sensuality, which makes up the very fabric of the plot itself.
Bank House Media’s network of distribution channels for this latest novel includes main UK websites such as WHSmith and Amazon, as well as facilities covering the rest of the world.
For more information, log on www.angievoluti.wordpress.com or contact
Angie Voluti PR Dave Randle
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