The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace

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An iridescent jewel of a novel that proves love is the mother of invention In the early 1800s, a young Italian contessa, Carolina Fantoni, realizes she is going blind shortly before she marries the town's most sought-after bachelor. Her parents don't believe her, nor does her fiancé. The... read more

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“My worries age me every day, said Turri, But so far none of them have resulted in music.”
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“The kiss had unmoored her. It was easier for her to believe that the room had put out to sea than that the daily operations of the house continued around them as always.”

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On the day the Contessa Carolina Fantoni was married, only one other living person knew that she was going blind, and he was not her groom.

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Carey Wallace (Author)

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Dewey: 813.6

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Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical

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