Research brings her nearer and nearer the traumas that prompted the hoarding

But this is Italy after all, and it becomes as easy for the reader to succumb to the enchantment as it does for the characters.

She looks like a toad, yet the children adore her…

Anticipatory withdrawal symptoms were already kicking in – the sweats, the hallucinations, the cravings.

Her appalling co-worker Shiraha isa the only available prospect in trousers