Mamma in her village

<p>Mamma in her Village is the first volume of Maristella Lorch's trilogy Beyond Gibraltar the story of generations of strong women covering more than a century including two World Wars the Cold War and the explosion of terrorism. In a biographical novel set in Tajo a village in the Central Alps torn between its Germanic heritage and an emerging Italian influence we follow mamma the author's mother from child to young wife in the years leading to WWI.</p>