Synopsis: Told with the intimacy and ferocity of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels and set in the passionate, intense, and crumbling neighborhood known as the Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a tale of two students searching for love and belonging in the city they so desperately want to call home.
Several years after leaving Naples, Heddi receives an email from Pietro, her first love, admitting that he was wrong. Immediately Heddi is transported back to her college days in that heartbreakingly beautiful city built on the ruins of a legendary empire set against the backdrop of a sleeping volcano. The narrow, winding streets of Naples’s Spanish Quarter still sparks the pain of longing and a desire to belong. It is the place she so wanted to call home despite being l’americano. But for Heddi’s tribe of university friends, Naples was the first taste of freedom and an escape from their familial obligations. For all of them Naples is a place that they’ll never forget: the setting of their unrestrained youth.
When Heddi unexpectedly meets Pietro, a fellow student they are immediately drawn to one another and fall into a whirlwind romance. She is searching for the roots she never had, while he is trying to escape his. Naples, alive and fierce, and ultimately elusive, becomes a real university of life.
In this poignant, atmosphericcoming of age tale of first love—of a place, of a person—languages and cultures collide while dreams soar and crash in spectacular ways.
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About the Author: Heddi Goodrich first moved to Naples for high school. She ended up staying for ten years, graduating from the University of Naples, L'Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" with a masters in languages. She now lives and works in New Zealand. Lost in the Spanish Quarter is her first novel. She translated the work from Italian into English, herself.
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
My Review: If you have never been to Naples then read this book. The author did a beautiful job with transporting me there while reading. This is one more title that I just fell in love with. And although it did have a few light things that needed some work I loved it. This love story reminded me of stories from my favorite author Colleen Hoover. It takes you on this journey though time with two people who fall head over heels in love and share emails within two different timelines as they converge and the mystery is unfolded you are at the edge of your seat wondering if everything is going to be ok.
The writing in this one was fabulous and I can not wait for the next title from Heddi Goodrich!
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
My Review: If you have never been to Naples then read this book. The author did a beautiful job with transporting me there while reading. This is one more title that I just fell in love with. And although it did have a few light things that needed some work I loved it. This love story reminded me of stories from my favorite author Colleen Hoover. It takes you on this journey though time with two people who fall head over heels in love and share emails within two different timelines as they converge and the mystery is unfolded you are at the edge of your seat wondering if everything is going to be ok.
The writing in this one was fabulous and I can not wait for the next title from Heddi Goodrich!
“Lost in the Spanish Quarter is a luscious sensory experience of a novel. I could smell the sewage and the sea, taste the history in the descriptions of crumbling buildings, quarreling couples and sizzling oil. . . . The story feels tactile, rich, and meditative, all at the same time.”
(Leah Franqui, author of America For Beginners )
“Heddi Goodrich is a magnificent storyteller who keeps us in the moment, while letting the shadows of the past close in, leaving the reader enthralled. I loved it. Bellissima!“ (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Tony’s Wife )
“Far from the deteriorating and claustrophobic rione of Elena Ferrante, and from the violent Gomorra of Roberto Saviano, Heddi Goodrich’s is a third Naples - central, dense, vital - seen through the eyes of a foreigner who surprisingly found her most authentic voice there …” (Cristina Taglietti, Corriere della sera)
“One of the merits of the book, and maybe its strongest, is this language that the author almost had to invent, bending it to form unusual sounds especially regarding the syntax but also in terms of her choice of words: sown here and there with words as surpising as blooms in a field” (Francesco Durante, Il mattino)
“A declaration of love for Naples, and not at all superficial: it is powerful and authentic precisely because it is a foreigner’s point of view, one that is not afraid of this vast city that is often difficult to comprehend.” (Pier Luigi Razzano, La Repubblica, Napoli)
(Leah Franqui, author of America For Beginners )
“Heddi Goodrich is a magnificent storyteller who keeps us in the moment, while letting the shadows of the past close in, leaving the reader enthralled. I loved it. Bellissima!“ (Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Tony’s Wife )
“Far from the deteriorating and claustrophobic rione of Elena Ferrante, and from the violent Gomorra of Roberto Saviano, Heddi Goodrich’s is a third Naples - central, dense, vital - seen through the eyes of a foreigner who surprisingly found her most authentic voice there …” (Cristina Taglietti, Corriere della sera)
“One of the merits of the book, and maybe its strongest, is this language that the author almost had to invent, bending it to form unusual sounds especially regarding the syntax but also in terms of her choice of words: sown here and there with words as surpising as blooms in a field” (Francesco Durante, Il mattino)
“A declaration of love for Naples, and not at all superficial: it is powerful and authentic precisely because it is a foreigner’s point of view, one that is not afraid of this vast city that is often difficult to comprehend.” (Pier Luigi Razzano, La Repubblica, Napoli)
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