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Silvia (Maya Caruso, Echo)

Tuesday, 24 March 2026    Books+Publishing
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Midlife awakening lies at the heart of Maya Caruso’s impressive debut novel, Silvia. This character-driven novel follows 42-year-old Silvia, a divorced daughter of a widowed Italian matriarch, Silvia Senior, whose dream is to see her daughter married with kids and producing homemade lasagnes at an impossible speed. Silvia, however, is...

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