When Bonaria adopts Maria, the unloved fourth child of a widow, she tries to shield the girl from the truth about her role as an angel of mercy. Moved by the pleas of a young man crippled in an accident, she breaks her golden rule of familial consent, and in the recriminations that follow, Maria rejects her and flees Sardinia for Turin. Adrift in the big city, Maria strives as ever to find love and acceptance, but her efforts are overshadowed by the creeping knowledge of a debt unpaid, of a duty and destiny that must one day be hers.
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Editions
18 editions · 7 languages
Paperback · English · 2012
L'acabadora
labutxaca · 224 pages · 9788499305110
Paperback · English · 2011
L'acabadora
Proa · 224 pages · 9788475882482
Other · English · 2023
Athmháthair
Unknown Publisher · 159 pages · 9781914482144
Other · English · 2014
Ulverscroft · 9781444820409
Other · English · 2012
Counterpoint · 175 pages · 9781619020504
Other · English · 2012
Quercus · 208 pages · 9780857050472
EuthanasiaAdopteesFamiliesFictionRomance literatureFiction, family lifeItaly, fiction
