Today features the book
The Italian Lesson, co-authored by Mary Trump, E. Jean Carroll and Jennifer Taub.
Trump tells TODAY.com the plot of "The Italian Lesson" came from the trio's original idea for the Hallmark movie. They envisioned an American woman moving to a small hill town in Tuscany and opening up a café. Then, "some stud walks in and turns out he's a prince," Trump says.
While Trump says they "did keep some of the conventions" of their idea for the screenplay, she says the novel "definitely has more intrigue."
"It's darker than 'Rebecca,' it's darker than 'Jane Eyre,'" Taub says, before describing the leading man. "I love 'Pride and Prejudice.' And she's made a character better than Mr. Darcy." (Anna Kaplan)
On Magazine reviews the book
Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones by Hettie Judah.
The moody millstone grit looming over those West Yorkshire moorlands, reshaped by centuries of savage winds and harsh rains, but as abrasive and tough as ever, provides reference to one of the county’s most famous authors, forged by the landscape into which she was born. In a forward to Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, published in 1847, just a year before her death, her sister Charlotte pictured Emily as a sculptor chiselling the novel ‘hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials… its colouring is of mellow grey, and moorland moss clothes it’, (Elizabeth Stanforth-Sharpe)
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