Like a Storm, Like Love
Sometimes you have to go through the storm to find yourself again — and to learn the difference between love and possession.
In a small town on the shore of an ancient glacial lake, seven teenagers are tangled in relationships — of love, of friendship — that don’t always make them happy. Then the storm no one quite believed in arrives — a lake tsunami that tears through the town and through every fragile balance holding these seven lives together. As the water rises, so does the truth: about who really loves them, who is using them, and who they need to become once the storm has passed.
- Rounded in real psychological insight — Co-written with Jacopo Casiraghi, a systemic-relational psychotherapist, the novel explores coercive control, manipulation disguised as love and online grooming with rare authenticity.
- An ensemble structure built for binge-reading — Seven interlocking points of view, each with a relationship to untangle, give the novel the pace, emotional intensity and addictive pull of a contemporary teen drama.
Azzurra D’Agostino was born and lives in a small village in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. She has published several poetry collections—winning the Carducci Prize and the Ciampi Valigie Rosse Prize, and being shortlisted for the Viareggio-Repaci Prize—and writes for the theatre, both for adults and children.
She has published numerous picture books and edited When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Poet, an anthology of poems written by children during workshops held across Italy. Her novels for young readers include The Garden of Wishes, Ghost Light – Emerging from the Dark Together, Cora in the Straight City and The Night I Killed Kurt Cobain.
She also created the palmistry-inspired card deck Oracle of Destiny and edited the dreamlike-anthropological book Dreams and Symbols. In addition to writing, she leads poetry workshops for people of all ages.
Jacopo Casiraghi is a psychologist and systemic-relational psychotherapist specializing in families, disability and the elderly. He coordinates the psychologists at the Nemo Clinical Centers in Milan and is responsible for the "psychological care" of pediatric patients and their families. Since 2013, he has worked with Famiglie SMA, providing psychological support to families with children affected by SMA. He published Ghostlight. Insieme fuori dal buio with Giunti. Jacopo Casiraghi also collaborates with the teaching activities and the Clinical Psychology Laboratory at the Catholic University of Milan, as well as with several psychotherapy specialization schools.
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