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The worst kind of want, Liska Jacobs

eng

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fiction

The worst kind of want

Liska Jacobs

"To cool-headed, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that's starting to feel like one long decline. Rescued from the bedside of her difficult mother, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece, Hannah. But after years of caregiving, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah's youthful, heedless world, relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. Years of feeling used up and overlooked slip away, and Cilla feels like she's coming back to life. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy threatens to send her into a tailspin."--Book jacket

Worst kind of want, a novel