Fiamma, the protagonist of our story, is fighting a constant battle with her demons: bulimia, an aloof and distant mother, and the memory of a father that was taken away from her by a terrible illness. The story is a story of love, the very adult love of an adolescent, the tormented love for a street-performer. And it is also a story of friendship, a delicate, intimate friendship between Fiamma and Elife. The novel is a sequence of still shots, snapshots of Fiamma's life, and this makes it not only easily readable, but extremely suited to the big screen.

Author Biography

Dana Neri was born in a town near Rome on a cold, sunny morning at the end of December. She lives in London, in a small maisonette overlooking a canal with sinuous swans and dazzling ducks. Winner of numerous literary competitions, she has published poems and short stories, as well as the essay Palinsesti Woolfiani (Edizioni Il Foglio, 2012). She is nicknamed "The Rainbow Writer", because she loves to dress in the colours of the rainbow, one colour for each day of the week. She is especially interested in playing with words, symmetry, dates, and palindromes. Fiamma is her first novel.