Untold Lessons

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Untold Lessons by Maddalena Vaglio Tanet is a debut novel from one of Italy’s most exciting new feminist authors – a tantalising thriller that will keep any reader on their toes.

What We Say: “Inspired by a true story that rocked the author’s hometown, this is an intense and mysterious novel about the death of a young child in a small Italian village and the events that unfold. As the news breaks of Giovanna’s death, her teacher Silvia goes missing. The subsequent search through the surrounding woodlands unearths feelings and situations that some feel would be better hidden. An intense literary thriller that subverts expectations, forcing us to ask whether it’s a good idea to pry into the inner lives of those who do socially taboo things” – Maria Padget

What They Say: “Vivid, beguiling and needle-sharp, Untold Lessons is an unmissable literary thriller that stirs our darkest impulses” — Lucy Rose

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Maria Padget is Service95 Book Club Director