Bestselling author Adrianna Trigiani, beloved by millions for her humour, warmth and wonderful storytelling, takes on love, lust, tricky family dynamics and home decorating in 'Rococo', the captivating story of a small Italian-American town poised for a makeover it never expected.
Bartolomeo Di Crespi is the acclaimed interior decorator of Our Lady of Fatima, New Jersey. From the dazzling shores of New Jersey to the legendary fabric houses of New York City, from the prickly purveyors of fine art in London to luscious Santa Margherita on the Mediterranean coast of Italy, he is on a mission to bring talent, sophistication and his aesthetic vision to his hometown. When the renovation of the local church is put up for tender, Bartolomeo assumes there is only one man for the job. But Father Porporino, the local pastor with a secret, may have different ideas.
Trigiani's glittering mosaic of small town characters sparkles: Bartolomeo's hilarious sister, Toot, in desperate need of a post-divorce transformation - thirteen years after the event; Aurelia, the richest woman in New Jersey with a lust for French interiors and a long-held hope that Bartolomeo will marry her myopic daughter, Capri; Eudie, the chic international designer, who steps in and changes the course of Bartolomeo's creative life, while his lifelong confidante, Christina, awaits rescue from an inconsolable grief.
Brilliantly funny and as fanciful as flocked wallpaper, 'Rococo' is Adriana Trigiani's masterpiece, a classic comedy with a heart of gold leaf.
