title: Sea of Lost Love: A Novel
author:  Santa Montefiore 
description: A young woman finds love and sudden maturity in this charmingly melodramatic romance from the author of <i>The Gypsy Madonna</i>. Tragedy strikes an upper-class English family at its Cornish manor house in 1958: Robert Monty Montague has vanished, leaving behind a pile of debts, a pair of shoes washed up on the beach, a drifting motorboat bearing his gold pocket watch and a note in a bottle that reads, Forgive me. His spoiled daughter, the impossibly beautiful 21-year-old Celestria, is forced out of her shallow complacency to discover why her father, whom everyone loved and assumed to be so happy, apparently drowned himself. She follows a trail of bank statements to a seaside Italian convent converted into a family-run hotel. There, she encounters Hamish McCloud, a surly Scotsman who loathed Monty and, after a rocky start, develops a very different feeling toward Celestria. The prose is florid and fitting for the ridiculously, deliciously escapist whirlwind romance that envelopes Celestria and Hamish as the over-the-top revelations about Monty come to light. <i>(May)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  THE ITALIAN MATCHMAKER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Santa Montefiore
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Praise for Santa Montefiore and THE ITALIAN MATCHMAKER:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘This is quite simply a beautiful read and will make you believe again in love
  that conquers all’
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  News of the World
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘Montefiore is adept at writing perceptive character analysis . . . The
  Italian Matchmaker will lighten up even the most gloomy of readers’
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Sunday Express
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘If you’ve finally got that longed for glass of chilled Prosecco . . . now is
  the perfect time to read this gripping romance . . . It is as believable as
  the writing is beautiful’
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Daily Telegraph
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ‘It twangs on every heartstring, presses every button and is utterly
  irresistible . . . It’s lovely stuff – glossy lifestyle glamour with a soul .
  . . you’re spellbound by the sheer char