Length4h 20m
About this audiobook
'Origo's diaries, trenchantly and pithily written, are a glory'
Spectator
Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century's great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between England, Ireland, Italy and America, never quite belonging anywhere. It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest in one country. Fifteen years later, that country would be at war with her own.
With piercing insight, Origo documents the grim absurdities that her adopted Italy underwent as war became more and more unavoidable. Connected to everyone, from the peasants on her estate to the US ambassador, she writes of the turmoil, the danger, and the dreadful bleakness of Italy in 1939-1940.
A Chill in the Air is the account of the awful inevitability of Italy's stumble into a conflict for which its people were ill prepared. With an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, the award-winning author of
The Pike, and an afterword by Katia Lysy, granddaughter of Iris Origo./br>
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (1.2K)
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GenreBiography and Memoir, History
Length4 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byHilary Bockham
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 23, 2020
LanguageEnglish
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