The Stars Over Rome is set against the twilight of the Belle Époque era and the ensuing chaos of World War I. The story explores themes of love, ambition and upheaval in one of the world’s most timeless cities. When the story begins in 1913, Rome was a city caught between its historic past and …
In the early 1900s, Italian and British societies alike imposed strict limitations on women’s roles, particularly in the public and professional spheres. Gabriella Santorelli, my fictional heroine of The Stars Over Rome, is the daughter of an English father and an Italian mother. She is brought up with the intellectual freedom of Edwardian London but, …