The Fourth Shore

The Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli coast the 'lost' territory Mussolini promised to reclaim for Italy. Which is how in 1929 seventeen-year-old Liliana Cattaneo arrives there from Rome on a ship filled with eager colonists to join her brother and his new wife. Liliana is sure she was on the brink of a great adventure but what awaits her is not the Mediterranean idyll of cocktail parties and romantic intrigues she had imagined. Instead she finds a world of persecution violence repression corruption and deceptions both great and small.