Italian Teacher

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD***

''Wickedly funny, deeply touching . . . I confess this was the first of Rachman''s novels I''d read but I was so swept away by it that I raced out to buy the other three'' PATRICK GALE

''Relentlessly entertaining'' Daily Mail

Rome, 1955

The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome''s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites an...