Daniela Raimondi

Daniela Raimondi was born in Mantua and has lived most of her life in London, where she earned a Master’s degree in Hispanic and Latin American Literature. He now divides his time between England and Italy, in Sardinia. She is the author of ten books of poetry that have won major national awards. Some of his short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies. After The House on the Embankment (2020), he published The First Sun of Summer (2023) with Nord.

The first sun of summer

It is a cold home, the one in which Norma grows up, in which parents do not separate for quiet living and hugs can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Perhaps that is why, when Norma is away from her family, everything seems more beautiful to her. Like summers spent at the grandparents’, in Starry…

The house on the embankment

The Casadio family has always lived in the village of Stellata, at the crossroads of Lombardy, Emilia and Veneto. Simple, straightforward, hardworking people. Then, in the early 1800s, something changes: Giacomo Casadio falls in love with Viollca Toska, a gypsy woman, and marries her. From then on, the descendants of the family split into two strains: the dreamers…