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The Tuscan Child Rhys Bowen Books

Although I didn't think anything could top "In Fairleigh Field," I was wrong. "The Tuscan Child" earns my highest accolade, a rating of "Rattling Good Read"! I should know, since I stayed up most of the night enjoying it.

This book hit all my hot buttons--a secret dating back to World War II, an English protagonist, delightful descriptions of Italian food and scenery, a burgeoning romance--what could be better?

Thoroughly recommend this to everyone who longs for a good read on a rainy night. Or any other kind of night.


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The Tuscan Child Rhys Bowen Books Reviews

There's not much here. More of a Harlequin novel with a very thin mystery plot. It's a page turner..... you can turn many pages and not miss much.
Beautifully written. Having lived in Italy half a century ago the land and the culture as portrayed in this story brought back wonderful memories. I loved the way the author intertwined the two generational stories. All without sex or bad language.
Attention Red Herring, Red Herring! Finding out the secret of The Tuscan Child was like having someone spray you in the face with water from a garden hose--you certainly wasn't expecting that! The story of Hugo and Sofia during WW2 in the Tuscany region of Italy was beautiful and heart-breaking. Joanna's story, (Hugo's daughter) set in 1973 in the Tuscany region also was exciting, as she travels to that region to find out the details of her now deceased father's life when he was shot down while piloting a plane during the war. She finds a note detailing a "beautiful boy" hidden by Hugo and Sofia in 1944 and travels to Italy to unravel the mystery of her father, the enchanting Sofia and the mysterious boy child. I was hoping for a happy ending for Hugo and Sofia meeting together down the road, but that was not meant to be. But, a beautiful story otherwise.
I have no idea how this book has such positive reviews - such poor writing. The story line was ok and a bit intriguing, however page after page only comes to the most obvious of conclusions. Was she trying to write a mystery or a food travelogue? A man is murdered outside the very room the main character is sleeping in and yet she really can only think about the food she's eating and the town hottie. Pure madness! She's even told by the police that she can't leave because she's a suspect in the murder of a town she isn't from. Does she A) try to get a lawyer or B) think about dinner ? If you chose B - this book is for you! The downright elementary dialogue really bothered me. It was downright eye rolling! Try reading the dialogue to yourself out loud and you'll find yourself laughing. If you like a who-dun-it with Italian food - this might work for you.
I normally love everything Rhys writes, and will read her books in a single sitting, I absolutely LOVED in Farleigh Field, and all the Royal Spyness, Molly Murphy, and Evan. This is a good and interesting story, but seemed poorly written and was easy to put down. I was disappointed as I had really been looking forward to the release. I just didn’t like the writing style this time, it seemed the dialogue was simplistic, and not well written, as if trying to speak and write from a foreign language perspective, which to me, was unnecessary and made it difficult to enjoy. It was hard to get into at the beginning...I didn’t feel much about either Joanna or Hugo, and their non relationship. Joanna appeared annoying, even in everyday little things, and it was hard for me to like her. Pity her, sure, a bit...but otherwise, other characters were far more appealing.
When my reading was interrupted it took me a couple of minutes to realize that I was in the grey, wintry Midwest and not actually in Tuscany, in any time period. The story is so engrossing, the characters so well drawn and believable and the description of the scenery and even the food are wonderful. Rhys Bowen has a real winner with this latest novel!
Sometimes I must post my review the minute I have closed the book on the last page. The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen is one of those gems. I have several books by Ms Bowen sitting on my bookshelves that have not been read as yet, my bad.
The Tuscan Child flips between two different eras throughout the novel. Starting with Hugo Langley, a son of the aristocracy, a husband and father brought down with his mates in the late part of WW2 in the mountain region of Tuscany, the only one to survive the wreck with a bad leg as a result. The second character we meet in the early 70's, his daughter, Joanna who must deal with the remnants of her recent loss of her estranged father Hugh who was 'existing' in a portion of the Family Estate in the English Countryside, the Lodge which was lent to him when he became heir to the estate but unable to pay inheritance taxes to the Crown(which many families have found various ways of dealing with).He was forced to sell the estate to a local private school. Joanna going through his belongings finds a returned letter to a Sophia in Tuscany which upon reading , piques her interest in their relationship and refers to a 'golden child'. Having inventoried the remaining family possessions, including several paintings, Joanna decides to put off her exams to be eligible for the bar , leave said possessions with her barrister(Nigel Barton), and takes off to unravel the mystery of her father's time spent during the war, and what happened to the Sophia, and her child or children.
All of the parallel life histories tell us much about these two, and all the characters that they weave into their stories. So we learn more initially than they do, but not all except they are somehow all connected, the good, the bad, and the potentially nasty or are they ?
Let me lead the reader to have the satisfaction to unravel all the mysteries, that befall Hugh, Sophia, Joanna and others ..This is where I take my leave with the most urging that if you want to disappear with an exceptional book, and follow the narrative..who am I to stop you...I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO SO!
Although I didn't think anything could top "In Fairleigh Field," I was wrong. "The Tuscan Child" earns my highest accolade, a rating of "Rattling Good Read"! I should know, since I stayed up most of the night enjoying it.

This book hit all my hot buttons--a secret dating back to World War II, an English protagonist, delightful descriptions of Italian food and scenery, a burgeoning romance--what could be better?

Thoroughly recommend this to everyone who longs for a good read on a rainy night. Or any other kind of night.