A Single Breath of Air

By Jo Draxler

A marriage of souls requires a meeting of minds, and for Caterina, a goose.

Having spent two days contemplating the deep love she feels for her partner Barrett, Italian artisan dress designer, Caterina Mazzini, seduces a stranger in her own home. After a calamitous finale she reflects wistfully upon her childhood and coming of age in Salerno, Southern Italy, and on the events which had to occur in order to take her six thousand miles from Berkshire to Johannesburg.

1980, a young girl sits gazing across the Gulf of Salerno, her spirit is stirred as she holds communion with her sea breeze. She will grow into glorious adulthood. Before leaving college for a career in the UK, Rina learns about science and the white stork from her physics teacher, professor Russo, and about sex from beautiful Juliana's boyfriend, Stefano. In England, Caterina marries, but it isn't long before her airline pilot husband strays; her revenge is sweetly twisted. Years later she meets Barrett and is smitten, but she cannot forsake her secret lover, an Italian airline executive who she keeps hidden from everyone, including her best friend, Emma. Caterina juxtaposes the three most important people in her life and creates a wonderful resolution to a complicated situation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805140876
• ISBN13: 9781805140870
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Troubador Publishing
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"