The Rome affair
Rome. Francesca Hackett is leading tourist groups and forgetting the ghosts she left behind in London. When she finds a stolen designer handbag in her dustbin and returns it, she is brought into the orbit of her grand neighbor, famed socialite Viscontessa Elena dei Damiani Pignatelli della Mirandola. The two women agree to collaborate on Elena's memoirs. As summer unfurls, Elena tells her sensational stories, leaving Cesca in her thrall. But when...
