Two nights

Adventure
Magical realism
Mystery

So this is courage. Recognising you are afraid and trying in spite of everything. Going anyway.

Four friends set off to spend three days in a house deep in the woods.
It’s the home of Neri and Anna’s grandmother, and the cousins have invited their friends, Giulio and Osso, to share the adventure with them. But the days and nights together soon become something much more than a simple getaway: the house is shrouded in mystery and seems to draw out each of their darkest fears. Could it be because their grandmother had a special gift — one that made her known in the village as a healer? Over the course of two nights, as their Fears come to visit them up close, the friends will find strength in their own resilience, in each other, and in an ancient ritual (still practiced in real Appennine folk tradition) to “wash the fear away.” They will face what haunts them. They will discover the power of true friendship. And some… might even find love.

  • A story that shines a light on the strength of friendship in the moment we face our deepest fears.
  • An adventure where nature and emotion take center stage.
Publisher: Il Castoro
Target: 10+
Year: 2025
Author
Azzurra D’Agostino

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.

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