". . . an example of women's fiction at its best."?Foreword Reviews
When Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her?threatening the life she's built, including her marriage?the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe.
Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged to be married. When she meets and befriends his fiancée, she is forced to confront the moral consequences of her actions. But an unexpected pregnancy, an anonymous letter, and threatening relatives complicate the picture. A novel in which an unconventional heroine, far from home, is forced to reckon with the judgment of others.
Nothing Forgotten is the third novel in Jessica Levine's The Cousins Series. It can be read after The Geometry of Love or as a standalone.
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Jessica Levine is the author of three novels constituting The Cousins Series. Interconnected, they can be read in sequence or as standalones. Three Cousins is the first in the series and a prequel to the others. Both The Geometry of Love and Nothing Forgotten made Booklist's Top 10 Women's Fiction list. She is also the author of Delicate Pursuit: Discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was a Mellow Fellow. She has been working as a hypnotherapist since 2005.
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". . . an example of women's fiction at its best." -Foreword Reviews
When Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her-threatening the life she's built, including her marriage-the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe.
Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged to be married. When she meets and befriends his fiancée, she is forced to confront the moral consequences of her actions. But an unexpected pregnancy, an anonymous letter, and threatening relatives complicate the picture. A novel in which an unconventional heroine, far from home, is forced to reckon with the judgment of others.
Nothing Forgotten is the third novel in Jessica Levine's The Cousins Series. It can be read after The Geometry of Love or as a standalone.