Villa Fortuna (The Belmonte Series 2): A German-Italian Family Saga | A moving family story novel around love, home and identity

A dramatic family history between Germany and Italy – second part of the soulful women’s trilogy! Fate once led two women to picturesque Belmonte, the suddenly very vibrant past threatens to roll over them: a new moving novel from the Spiegel bestselling author! From mothers and children, of cohesion and separation, of mystery and reconciliation, Antonia Riepp understands a whole crowd. Even with the start of the “Belmonte” trilogy, the well-known author has already secured more than 35,000 loyal readers. In the second part “Villa Fortuna”, she tells again of a family fate that grows between entertainment and contemporary history with soulful ease to a great Italian novel. Johanna has retreated to the edge of the village of Belmonte and lives a peaceful life in the Villa Fortuna. But when American Michael shows up and claims to be her son, Johanna must dive deep into her past and face the terrible events in an Allgäuer maternity home. These events combine them with Gabriella Moretti – and the two women embark on a painful trace search together. Smart entertainment for women – the perfect summer reading Antonia Riepp manages to embed deeply serious motifs such as threatened family happiness, emancipation and the mother role in the picturesque backdrop of her Italian mountain resort of Belmonte, while giving “Villa Fortuna” a light-footed that immediately attracts fans of upscale women’s entertainment. A dark chapter in the history of emancipation comes to light The Belmonte trilogy is not just fiction and soulful close-up viewing. The events in maternity homes for “fallen girls” who entered the rights of young women and mothers with their feet up to the eighties, come to light for many readers for the first time. That’s why “Villa Fortuna” is a reading must for fans of Daniel Speck and Peter Prange