Finally able to read Nothing Forgotten. Perfect book for a snowy day. Anna is a young girl on an adventure in Europe. She becomes entangled in an affair with an engaged older man. Could be a Lifetime movie.

This is a very well written book about marriage and motherhood. I am definitely going to seek out more work from this author.

It pains me to just barely give a book 3 stars when we all know how much time and effort and pieces of themselves an author puts into their work, but I have to be honest. I just didn’t like these characters very much and had a difficult time connecting with them in the present or with their younger selves that we discover through flashbacks. An Italian man contacts a woman he had an affair with 25 years ago . He was engaged at the time, divorced now but she is married and living back in the US, but in a marriage on the rocks, At 22 while living in Rome she sleeps with him and becomes friends with his fiancé. A pregnancy complicated things and is further complicated because she’s not sure who the father is. The ending is predictable as they begin to recreate their relationship and connect with a young man who may or may not be their son. Bottom line is that this was just not for me, but it will find an audience with fans of romance and women’s fiction so I rounded up .

I received an advanced copy of this book from She Writes Press through NetGalley.

Many a young romantic’s dream, to travel the world after college, secure a job, share an adorable flat with a scandalous Brit in Rome and fall madly in love … with a handsome, sexy, engaged, older man. Assured that a woman on the side is often the Italian way, At 22, Anna cannot help herself and falls deeply in love with her boss at the language school. She quickly let’s go of her inhibitions and her heart. When Sergio orchestrates Anna’s weekends so he can spend more time with her, she unapologetically befriends the unsuspecting fiance. After a complicated year, a wedding and a heart shattered in a million pieces, she leaves Rome. Twenty-five years later Sergio contacts her. Anna must decide if she can share her deepest darkest secrets that may change her life forever. I read this story of romance and family, loyalty and deception in one single sitting. I didn’t always love the characters or their choices or the rush-to-the-finish ending but found the thread of time and setting in Rome mesmerizing. When there is a fork in the road your history is being created and future determined. Also, the notion that when we are with loved ones from our past we can once again see through the eyes of that younger self. Enjoyable, well written, delicious Italian love story.