Not Dark Yet - Rilegato

Unexpected romance blossoms on a trip to the Aeolian Islands in this funny and touching debut novel, Jake Jones - young, gay and party-loving - lets the offer of a free trip accompanying an unknown older woman to Italy lure him away from the London scene. His first meeting with the formidable Eva Bergstrom gets them off on the wrong footing - but as the holiday continues a spiky friendship starts to grow between the couple. They visit two startling and exotic islands: Vulceno - whose curative mud pools Eva is strangely reluctant to bathe in - and Stromboli, with its spectacular active volcano. And it's here, in the cool and restful house of Maria, that the two of them begin to understand what has happened in the past and what is happening now. A story about preconceptions dissolving, and about hedonism overtaken by sorrow, NOT DARK YET introduces a distinctive and alluring new voice.