A rapturous standalone novel of hope, healing and hilarity, for fans of Elizabeth David, Stella Gibbons and Sarah Winman. In the Trastevere district of Rome, an idyllic maze crammed full of narrow streets and broad characters, lives Clemmie with her friend Floss. A once idealistic young woman, who came of age with the welfare state, Clemmie’s dreams of writing poetry and creating a New Jerusalem have been squashed by the harsh realities that life has inflicted upon her. When a chance (and almost fatal) incident with a Vespa brings her into contact with a young carpenter called Montgomery Marsh – himself in Rome to try to escape the demons of his past – an unlikely friendship is forged between two damaged characters that will take them on a wild and often hilarious ride through the Eternal City in search of fresh hope and a new way of living. Uplifting, heartfelt and funny, Roman Mornings, like the city in which it is set, is a novel of mysterious beauty, warmth and energy that you will want to revisit again and again.