Love Falls

A mesmerising coming-of-age tale set in sun-drenched Tuscany, from the author of Hideous Kinky and I Couldn't Love You More 'A vividly rendered portrait of a young girl's journey towards self discovery and maturity' Daily Mail 'Love Falls captures the delicious uncertainty and electrifying beginnings of first love' Glamour It is July, three months after Lara's seventeenth birthday, and a week before Charles and Diana's Royal Wedding. When Lara's father, a man she barely knows, invites her to accompany him on holiday, she finds herself far away from the fumes of London's Holloway Road in the sun-scorched hillsides of Tuscany. There she meets the Willoughby family, rife with illicit alliances and vendettas. The more embroiled Lara becomes with them, and with the carelessly beautiful Kip, the more consumed she is with doubt, curiosity and dread. And so begins her intoxicating, troubled journey into self discovery and across the very fine line between childhood and what lies beyond ... "It is July, three months after Lara's seventeenth birthday and a week before Charles and Diana's Royal Wedding, when Lara's father, a man she barely knows, invites her to accompany him on a holiday to Italy. Soon Lara has exchanged the exhaust fumes of London's Holloway Road for the sun-scorched hillsides of Tuscany, and evenings spent listening to her father and his old friend Caroline exchanging cool, sardonic banter about a past Lara knows nothing about. As Lara's skin turns golden, she begins to relax, seduced by the limpid beauty of the landscape, the rustle of the crickets and the lure of the pool." "One night Lara is taken for dinner at the Willoughbys', their nearest neighbours, and finds herself irresistibly drawn to the carelessly beautiful only son of the family - a boy with five older sisters, who seems, fleetingly, unbelievably, to be interested in her too. But the Willoughbys are a family life with illicit alliances and vendettas, and the more embroiled Lara becomes with them the more consumed she is with doubt, curiosity and dread." "Love Falls is an unforgettable story about families, secrets, new love - and about adolescence in all its awkwardness and excitement."--Jacket When 17-year-old Lara accepts her father’s invitation to accompany him to Tuscany for the summer, she’s excited and trepidatious. But, her fears prove groundless, for the villa’s closest neighbors are the contagiously adventurous Willoughbys, the teenaged brood of a wealthy British lord. Caught up in their torrential good humor—and snared particularly by Kip Willoughby’s dark, flirtatious eyes—Lara sets off on a summer adventure full of danger, first love, and untold consequences that will change her life. It is July, three months after Lara's 17th birthday, and she is about to exchange the exhaust fumes of London's Holloway Road for the Tuscan hillsides, for a summer holiday with her distant charismatic father