Il peso della vergogna

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A family saga that weaves together the lives of two women, a grandmother and her granddaughter, through unspeakable secrets and secret loves.

Turin. Annabella Bramante is left on her own after her parents die in an accident a few months ago and, as though that were not enough, fate has just snatched away her beloved grandmother.
As she struggles to piece things back together, she discovers a mysterious bequest: a derelict villa in the Veneto, of which she never even suspected the existence, and a diary belonging to her grandmother. Annabella realises that the dark secret of the Bramantes is buried in this villa, and it will force her to question all she thought she knew about her family. With the help of a young man with alluring hazel eyes, Annabella sheds light on her grandmother’s eventful youth, when the violent acts of a despotic, Fascist father mingle with the caresses of an impossible love, until the disclosure that will bind the two women’s fates for ever…