A Cold Winter

A novel of secrets and female solidarity in the cold post-war city of Milan.

Milan in the winter of 1946 is freezing cold and piles of snow cover streets lined with rubble. Camilla and her two daughters live in a large attic room of their crumbling house, waiting for her husband who has disappeared. But then they meet others, with their secrets, their obscure pasts and their unsettling omniscience.