num_pages: 176
description: Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life.Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved in the old, awful problems together with some new ones. He also rediscovers the eternal family servant, the ever-changing Italian girl, who has always 'a second mother' This particular return to mother holds some surprises for Edmund.
language: English
title: The Italian Girl
titlecomplete: The Italian Girl
characters: Edmund Narraway, Flora Narraway, Isabel Narraway, Elsa Levkin, John Narraway, David Levkin, Maggie the Italian Girl, Lydia Narraway, Otto Narraway
genres: 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Womens, Literature, English Literature, Classics, British Literature, Family, Fiction
ratings_count: 2179
places: North of England
publisher: Penguin Books