Mystical novel · 2009
The Volcano
Michelle Alba
A letter from her long-dead mother reveals the family secret: every woman of their line dies on her thirty-fifth birthday. Hers is a month away. The way out lies in the past — under the ash of Vesuvius.
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That morning promised no great change in the life of Valérie, a guide and interpreter just back home in Paris from another trip. A letter from her long-dead mother, found by chance, turns all her plans upside down: the time left before her thirty-fifth birthday must go to saving herself — and that will make her look into the distant past…
The letter holds a family secret: every woman of their line dies on her thirty-fifth birthday. Valérie's is a month away. An old Roma woman in Brașov gives her a glass sphere — and it throws her into her past lives, each further back than the last.
Pushkin's St Petersburg, 15th-century Valencia, Northumbria in the age of the Vikings — and Vesuvius waiting at the very end of the road.
