The invitation: a novel

✍ Scribed by Lucy Foley

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 205 KB
• Edition: First United States edition
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A glamorous love story set along the Italian Riviera about a group of Bright Young Things aboard a yacht who all have secrets and pasts they try desperately --and dangerously--to hide. Rome, 1953: Hal, an itinerant journalist, has come to the city to lose himself and to seek absolution for an accident during the war which haunts him. He lives from job to job, from story to story, until one evening he finds himself on the steps of a palazzo, walking into a world of privilege and light. Here he meets Stella, the reluctant wife of an American investor and a fellow outcast in a city far from home.
Together, they escape the crowded party, and quickly find a place where they can imagine a different life, even if it's just for a night. They share their secrets, and feel a great spark of romance between them. Yet they are certain that their fates are already cast, and their paths won't cross again.
But a year later they are unexpectedly thrown...