love with an angel Federica Bosco
Cover Price: € 12.90
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Language: Italian
Publisher: Newton Compton
Year of Publication 2010
Genres: Women, Literature pink
"One morning you wake up and you're a teenager. So, without warning, overnight, you wake up in the body of a stranger you see overweight, he hates everyone, he dresses only in black and has thoughts of suicide, 84% of the time. And I was no exception. " This is Mia, sixteen, rebellious, humorous, determined, always ready to deal with the uncertainties of age determination: school, friends, parents separated, and a stormy relationship with the single mother who adores her, but it is a true landslide made up of men. I always chasing a big dream and indispensable: go to the Royal Ballet School in London, the most prestigious dance school in the world, where the selections are very hard and the cost of the line is too high for a single mother. Complicating his life is intense and secret love for Patrick, the brother of her best friend, a guy so charming and unique as to seem an angel, but regards it as a younger sister. Passion for dance and that Patrick is so strong and indissoluble that Mia would never be able to give up one of the two. Until fate, unavoidable and bold, will put in front of one of the most painful and difficult choices of his life.
Federica Bosco says, with overwhelming and subtle irony, a unique, delicate and poignant modern fairy tale, weaving, with the style that distinguishes the real to the surprising and unexpected.
I am very happy to review the latest work by Federica Bosco, a talented and sparkling Italian author, which I have been able to appreciate some of the works.
In Italy is famous for its so disenchanted e ironico di raccontare le (dis)avventure amorose di giovani donne, ma in questo libro, Innamorata di un angelo, Federica affronta il tema dell’amore nell’adolescenza. Si tratta di un amore straordinario, assoluto, che la protagonista, la sedicenne Mia, prova non solo nei confronti di un ragazzo, Patrick, ma anche verso la danza. Due amori imprescindibili l’uno dall’altro, che rappresentano la sua ragione di vita, croce e delizia della sua esistenza che le sembra diventare ogni giorno più complicata.
Mia è una ragazza, figlia di madre italiana e di padre inglese, che vive nei dintorni di Londra, conducendo una vita apparentemente normale, ma che sa di volere di più. Non le bastano le lezioni a scuola, l’amicizia di Nina, la migliore amica che lei considera come una sorella, o le uscite per andare al centro commerciale: il suo sogno è la danza, poter vivere per ballare, ma per fare ciò deve entrare nella scuola più prestigiosa: la Royal Ballet School di Londra. La strada per arrivare al successo è però lastricata di ostacoli: oltre alle durissime prove giornaliere con la sua insegnante, Mia deve fare i conti con le tesine e i compiti in classe che le affibbiano a scuola, ma soprattutto con il suo fardello più grande: l’amore segreto per Patrick. Questo sentimento mai espresso la tortura, ma sa che non può rivelarlo a nessuno, neanche alla sua migliore amica: Pat infatti è il fratello maggiore di Nina, la who is jealous of him and knows he can not disturb this friendship, especially because he was not reciprocated by her lover. Patrick
fact not only sees her as his little sister, but also lives far away from just because he enlisted in the Navy, and spent several months at sea without being able to return home. My
then passes his days pining for these two loves seemingly impossible, to navigate between the difficult introduction to the complicated situation in school and family. The mother lives with which it has an unstable relationship with a married man, Paul, and his father has remarried and has two other children, and seems uninterested in his life.
But another problem also afflicts Mia: registration with the Royal Ballet School is very expensive, and the small salary of the mother is not enough to ensure that our heroine the economic support that they would need. The only solution would be to renew its relationship with the wealthy Italian grandmother, but because of disagreements youth's mother refuses to ask for his help.
My life seems to resemble more and more like a train about to derail, when a random phone call on the cell allows Patrick to finally talk face to face with him. So begins a tentative rapprochement between the two, that my living as a dream, so beautiful that they can not lose even a moment, begins to transcribe telephone conversations with Pat on a diary, to be convinced that what is happening is wonderfully real.
In a crescendo of emotions, Pat says to Mia, and finally the story that seemed impossible becomes reality: his angel came to save her, to take her away from her colorless life, to carry it with him in a place of their own, far away by all, where you can fully enjoy the feeling.
But just when things seem to be going right, and also auditioned for the Royal Ballet School is starting, the unthinkable happens: a tragic event disrupts the life of Mia, and this time, unfortunately, not even his Angel can help her.
love with an angel is a book that you read all of a breath, I would recommend as a gift to a special person that you love: una'amica, sister, mother. In this book are dosed good feelings, anxieties and hopes of a girl who is growing, and that seems to do it page by page to become a young woman.
Very delicate is the description of the tenderness that blossoms between the two protagonists, and above all very realistic, without ever lapsing into pathos, the author captures all the nuances of the first adolescent crush, making them more and more vivid until they culminate in a feeling love deep and dramatic.
Although the irony of the famous Woods reflected in various passages of the story, the emotions in this book seem to prevail, giving us a story of a dance step and the other leads elegantly to the unexpected twist.
Just the final, in my opinion, it seems a bit out of tune 'with the tenor of the story, based on duality dance - Patrick is the inevitable choice that Mia has to make in favor of one or the other, upsetting in a way a bit' forced an event that perhaps did not need to be misfortunes always fascinating.
took read: about a week
Recommended drink: milk and cookies
recommended reading age: 15 years
rating : 7
