Things That Go Unspoken

'Lattanzi chooses to tell her journey, extremely painful because extremely real, of the choice to be a mother first and the frightening realities of assisted fertilisation.' 

-- Paola de Pasquale

'Her story is the emblem of all those things that, it is true, are not told, but with which every woman must deal. On which every woman is weighed, judged, first of all often by herself. The sense of guilt if a woman wants children, but is afraid of losing her job. The desire to be a mother but also to be successful. The inability of men to understand.' 

-- Maria Elisa Gualandris

‘A novel about two desires that often torment this female body: the desire for self-affirmation, ambition, and professional fulfillment that clashes inexorably with another all-encompassing desire: motherhood.’

-- Valeria Parrella

'A book that is too personal, too painful, to maintain the critical perspective of someone who must open it, dismantle it, explain to the reader why to read it.' 

-- Silvia Argento * Il vero scopo della scrittura *

'Lattanzi opens doors she doesn't want to open, reveals secrets never told, chases forgotten memories. The result is a novel that can be read in one breath.'

-- B. Gi