Why a Booktrail?
Destination: Lake Orta Departure time : 2000s
Two weeks on the banks of Lake Orta like the characters in the book? Yes please!
Other People’s Secrets
What you need to know before your trail
A couple arrive in Italy beset by personal tragedy.
Two weeks in a boathouse on the edge of peaceful Lake Orta is exactly what they need to restore their faith in life—and each other.
Twenty-four hours later however and the silence is well and truly broken. The Sale family have arrived at the main villa whose daughter Pippi soon meets and introduces Zach to the group.
Zach is charming and sociable. He has a way of getting things out of people. No one suspects that his arrival in their lives might be anything other than accidental
Locations
Reset- Italy - Italian Lakes
- A: Lake Orta
- B: Lake Orta - Orta san Giulio
- C: Lake Orta - Hotel Leon D’or
Travel Guide
The area of Lake Orta was – ‘Small and green and tranquil’, and via Olina is described as ‘narrow cobbled lane that counted as one of Orta’s main thorough fares.
As for the rest of the landscape, it continue to enchant as we move through the novel. A perfect setting for relief and recovery from a personal tragedy but sometimes paradise can hide its own mystery and the setting really pays a part in drawing you into the goings on in this seemingly tranquil part of the world.
A great advert for the Italian lakes with an undercurrent of mystery which makes the calm surface all the more intriguing. the weather and the atmosphere are beautifully evoked and the fact that you are there with a myriad of different characters all thrown together makes for a good wait for them to clash amidst family holiday tensions .
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