7 Things I Wish I Knew Before...
Andrea Nuzzo
(Good) Bad Intentions
Coming of age
Mystery
What if you found your mum’s secret diary from when she was 14 years old? And what if it held a mystery and bad intentions inside?
Who hasn’t wondered what their parents were like as kids?
Fifteen-year-old Giorgio, with almost 3000 followers and 0 friends, has never raised the question. At least until he finds a 1996 notebook in which his mother Catherine, aged 14, tells her best friend Karl that she wants to blow up the family bookshop. From that moment on, he tries to read every page of that double diary to solve two mysteries: who is this Karl, and what happened to him? And how did the insecure Kat become General Catherine?
- A Back to the Future without the DeLorean, but with secret diaries. From 1996 to today to really get to know your parents.
- A story about true friendship that leaves you free; about loneliness, even while teeming with followers; about the solidity of relationships when they’re built by putting yourselves in each other’s shoes.
- Are you sure you know your parents? What secrets are hidden in their past? Giorgio has discovered his mother’s secret, and with it also love.
Publisher:
Edizioni EL
Target:
10+
Year:
2022
Author
Carlotta Cubeddu
Carlotta Cubeddu is an Italian writer and educator. Passionate about popularisation and novels, she manages to combine both her passions. As a reading facilitator and author of the book Penso, Parlo, Posto (To Post or Not to Post), Il Castoro, translated into Russian and Spanish, she also dedicates part of her time to training teachers and parents, sharing her experience with them.
Author
Caterina Guagni
Caterina was born in 1982 in Florence, and perhaps it is this very city that inspired her to immerse herself in the world of Dante, an author she studied extensively before moving on to reading contemporary writers. After working as an archivist, she found her path in the publishing world, joining the Treccani Giunti T.V.P. publishing house, where she has been working for years as a project manager, mainly focusing on secondary school textbooks. In 2011, she edited the collection of letters between poets Parronchi and Bellintani, titled Al vento della vita (Olschki), and in 2015, she collaborated with Giorgio Pinotti on the edition of La pelle by Curzio Malaparte for Adelphi. She is also the co-author, with Carlotta Cubeddu, of Buoni Cattivi propositi (Edizioni EL) and Le notti chiare (Il Castoro).
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