Il Manoscritto delle Nuove Promesse by Katherine Slee

 Il Manoscritto delle Nuove Promesse

by Katherine Slee translated by Roberta Scarabelli and published by Garzanti is a fantastic book for its immense poeticity. The author is in grade to let us see a beautiful world populated by peace, and a tender, soft existence, not disconnected by problems but filtered wonderfully well in a vision that it is relaxing.

Every chapter, apart the ones dedicated to Catriona, starts with the name of a different bird and at the end Slee will explain to the readers in a chapter apart the meaning of every bird.

Catriona Robinson is a big author of children's book. Sick, she dies leaving a devastated niece, Emily, with profound wounds in her soul and body but...with the possibility of healing.

Thanks to a lot of connections, friends, Catriona, prepares to Emily some letters where it is revealed who she was, her dreams, expectations and excitement for an original existence.

At the same time, Emily will travel in the most beloved corners of the world appreciated by her granny for trying to discover what she has decided to transmit her.

Be not Inhospitable to Strangers Lest they Be Angels in Disguise: in a wall of the famous parisien bookstore Shakespeare & Company there is written this quote.

Catriona worked there as tumbleweeds and it was in that bookstore that she decided she would have been a writer. Every tumbleweeds, before they go away must leave something: a biography, a writing, something that describe themselves and also the resons why they decided to work there. Catriona left a little notebook not found anymore. Always there, she had met important and crucial people to her like Antoine and Noah and Gigi... The first a delicate soul with which she spent several months in Saint Tropez, the other one, her biggest love. Other important people Giancarlo with a restaurant in Verona...

The existence of Catriona was devastated by an important loss: remained alone with her niece, she tried her best for healing herself and her niece by the horrible situation that they had experienced.

The book is populated by little and precious situations and microcosms.

The importance of life is in the little, daily actions of every day. 

Emily, thanks to the revelations will be in grade to make peace with her past.

Precious and highly recommended book!

Anna Maria Polidori