Very Valentine A Novel [Paperback]

Soon to be a Lifetime original movie

“Sex and the CitymeetsMoonstruck…this first in a new trilogy from Trigiani is sly, sensual and dripping in style.”
   — People

Poignant, funny, warm, and red hot,Very Valentineis a wonderful treat for Adriana Trigiani fans—a “delightful” (Boston Globe), “romance-soaked novel” (Marie Claire) from much adored playwright, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, andNew York Timesbestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife,All the Stars in the Heavensand The Supreme Macaroni Company.The adventures of an extraordinary and unforgettable woman as she attempts to rescue her family’s struggling shoe business and find love at the same time,VeryValentinesweeps the reader from the streets of Manhattan to the picturesque hills of Italy. Here is yet another novel from the incomparable Trigiani that will steal your heart.

The Angelini Shoe Company, one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village, has been making exquisite wedding shoes since 1903 but now teeters on the brink of financial collapse. To save their business from ruin, thirty-three-year-old Valentine Roncalli—apprentice to and granddaughter of master artisan Teodora Angelini—must bring the family's old-world craftsmanship into the twenty-first century. Juggling her budding romance with dashing chef Roman Falconi, her duty to her family, and a design challenge presented by a prestigious department store, Valentine returns to Italy with her grandmother in a quest to build a pair of glorious shoes to beat their rivals. And in the course of discovering her true artistic voice and so much more inla bella Italia, Valentine will be turning her life and the business upside down l37