TY - BOOK AU - Baily,Ginny TI - The Fourth Shore SN - 9780708898505 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Fleet, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Italy KW - Fiction KW - Italians KW - England KW - Widows KW - Fascism KW - Secrecy KW - Murder victims KW - History KW - German occupation, 1943-1945 KW - Tripoli (Libya) N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - Liliana's beloved husband has been dead six months when she finds a roll of banknotes in a drawer with a note: Treat yourself to something nice, love. The same morning, in her local cafe, she spies the headline on La Republica: two men have been shot and injured in Rome and it is suspected that Libya's Colonel Gadaffi is behind it. When she reads the name of one of the victims, Abrama Cattaneo, the last forty years of her life in England, not speaking Italian, never mentioning her Italian family, disappear in an instant. She is transported back to her years in Italy and in Tripoli, and she realises that Cattaneo, a poet, is the nephew she last saw when he was a baby. Immediately she knows what she must do. She boards a place to Rome, where she plans to reclaim the life that she failed to have. Her real life ER -