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A Tuscan Childhood

A Tuscan Childhood

Author(s): Kinta Beevor

Location(s): Tuscany, Carrara

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1940s

Kinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents’ castle facing the Carrara mountains.

She and her brother ran barefoot, exploring an enchanted world. They searched for wild mushrooms in the hills with Fiore the stonemason, and learned how to tickle trout. The freedom and beauty of life at the castle attracted poets, writers and painters, including D.H. Lawrence and Rex Whistler. The other side to Kinta’s childhood was very different, for it was spent with her formidable great aunt, Janet Ross, in a grand villa outside Florence. But soon the old way of life and Kinta’s idyllic world were threatened by war

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