Novel Baby Giulia
Zaira Sellerio recommends reading the book by her colleague and friend Maria Rosaria De Simone, which tells how a city like Rome hides many dangers for young people.
Plot
The book “Baby Giulia”, released by Bookabook publishing house in italian, talks about Giulia, a fourteen-year-old girl with a tragic family history behind her and a series of doubts that adolescence brings. One evening her body is found decomposed on the asphalt, after a fall from the seventh floor. Suicide. The case is closed. For everyone, but not for Commissioner Lo Cascio and Professor Farnese, Giulia’s Italian teacher.
Perhaps Giulia’s death was not a simple suicide? Perhaps someone had something to hide?
Review by Zaira Sellerio
From the gripping novel Baby Giulia by Maria Rosaria De Simone emerges a Rome with a thousand faces, where luxury seduces and dangers lurk in the most unsuspected places.
The story opens in a prestigious school in the centre, the scene of a mystery involving young Giulia, a student who has tragically disappeared. Investigating the case is Commissioner Luca Lo Cascio, a charming and determined Neapolitan transplanted in the capital. But also shedding light on the most disturbing details is Rachele Farnese, the girl’s teacher, who, reading between the lines of a notebook belonging to Giulia, discovers an inconvenient truth: the young girl may have been the victim of a plot.
Rachele and Luca, united by their investigation, discover an understanding that goes beyond the case. The commissioner, impressed by the teacher’s strength and intelligence, invites her to dinner. The evening ends with a romantic stroll under the stars of Rome, where the beauty of the city provides the backdrop for confessions and revelations about the case, revealing a truth that shakes everyone.
Amidst timeless monuments and charming alleys, Baby Giulia takes us into a vibrant and contradictory Rome, full of stories, pitfalls and humanity, a place where every corner seems to want to tell something.
Zaira Sellerio
