Bellagrand

Bellagrand
Paullina Simons

The passionate love story that led to The Bronze Horseman.They gave up everything to be together, but love was just the beginning …Italian immigrant Gina, independent, compassionate and strong, desperately wants a family. Boston blue-blood Harry, idealistic and political, wants to create a better world. Bound together by tormented passion, they rail, rage, and break each other’s hearts, only to come face to face with a stark final choice that will forever determine their destiny.Their journey takes them through four decades and two continents, through triumph and turmoil, from the wooden planks of the troubled immigrant town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, to the marble halls and secret doors of a mystical place called … Bellagrand.From internationally bestselling author Paullina Simons comes the passionate love story that led to The Bronze Horseman.

Bellagrand

Paullina Simons

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First published in Great Britain by Harper 2013

Copyright © Paullina Simons 2013

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Cover photographs © Aria Baro/Trevillion Images (girl); Macduff Everton/Getty Images (background)

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Source ISBN: 9780007493715

Ebook Edition © March 2015 ISBN: 9780007493746

Version: 2015-03-18

Dedication (#ulink_8b82dfed-ddf5-5fd5-a5a0-a3e9de9d0948)

For my mother,An engineerA teacherAn immigrantA romanticA dreamerA giver of lifeWho looked for ParadiseEvery place she lived.

But heard are the Voices

Heard are the Sages,

The Worlds and the Ages:

Choose well; your choice is

Brief, and yet endless.

—Johann von Goethe

Contents

Cover (#ud356d914-3cc0-519d-b6c5-918aa089f78a)

Title Page (#u7a32255d-9680-5b60-9dba-d09c1d8a31ca)

Copyright (#u6be06247-276f-50d7-98d8-02a2f649a896)

Dedication (#u30659468-d590-58e0-a49c-824a0d603bfc)

Epigraph (#u63514e62-9074-5218-a710-5a7b90c41075)

Maps (#uc2b69005-18af-563a-9a83-737687cf881d)

Prologue: 1936 (#u0b9aa8db-7e95-52fa-92ad-8203ef9529df)

Part One: Bread and Roses 1911–1918 (#u013f5b8e-ef2f-5c3d-b995-5b43fef636ec)

Chapter 1: Wine into Stones (#uf9773126-efb2-53fb-afff-0f2d4f188c43)

Chapter 2: Annie LoPizo (#u4cc1836d-0d91-5a9b-ad3b-d16b4cf61641)

Chapter 3: A Servant of Relief (#u43ef4354-c92d-599b-b413-e7f39e2bfe9c)

Chapter 4: The Love of an American Girl (#u7e328fd6-2722-5dd8-b1e4-566e62f5696b)

Chapter 5: Marble and Mud (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 6: Ten Days that Shook the World (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7: Bellagrand (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two: Bellagrand 1919–1922 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8: Flagler’s Quest for Paradise (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9: The Blue Room (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10: Molasses (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11: Total Eclipse of the Son (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12: Birds of Paradise (#litres_trial_promo)