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  • Your Little Matter

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Your Little Matter

by Maria Grazia Calandrone.

Translated from Italian by Antonella Lettieri.

  • £12.99
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  • Paperback published on 18/06/2024
  • Page count: 200 pages
  • ISBN: 9781738446322
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Synopsis

Rome 1965.  A man and a woman, excluded from Italian society, abandon their eight month old daughter in the Villa Borghese and take extreme action. In 2021, that child, author Maria Grazia Calandrone, sets out to discover the truth of what took place, examining the places that her mother lived, suffered, worked and loved.

Your Little Matter is an intimate reconstruction of the life of a parent, a shocking insight into the real lives of marginalised women from the Italian South in the relatively recent past, and the revelation of a cause celebre that was a catalyst for the legalisation of divorce in Italy. Combining poetic insight with cool, journalistic investigation, the completely personal with the very public, the book tells a devastating story of how the institutionalised callousness of state and society can lead to tragedy. 

About the author

Maria Grazia Calandrone was born in 1964 and lives in Rome. She is a poet, writer, journalist, playwright, visual artist, teacher, author and TV host. 

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