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Rent Very Valentine
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: Jan 2010
Genre: Fiction - Contemporary Women
Retail Price: $16.99
Pages: 416
Synopsis
The Angelini Shoe Company, one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village, has been making exquisite wedding shoes since 1903 but now teeters on the brink of financial collapse. To save their business from ruin, thirty-three-year-old Valentine Roncalli—apprentice to and granddaughter of master artisan Teodora Angelini—must bring the family's old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century. Juggling her budding romance with dashing chef Roman Falconi, her duty to her family, and a design challenge presented by a prestigious department store, Valentine returns to Italy with her grandmother in a quest to build a pair of glorious shoes to beat their rivals. And in the course of discovering her true artistic voice and so much more in la bella Italia, Valentine will be turning her life and the business upside down in ways she never expected.
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Reviews
If you love a descriptive author who weaves her story with tradition, food and fashion, this is your kind of book. I may be rating this a little higher than I normally would because I will be in Tuscany soon Adriana captures the countryside of Tuscany so vividly using familiar smells and vivid colors to being me into the moment. I enjoyed the story, even with the under-played relationships with the men in her life.