Synopsis

Emily the shady one. Emily the loner from Class 4B. Emily the quiet one with the fiery red hair. No one but her knows what it feels like to have lost her parents in a car accident in which she was the sole survivor. And no one can imagine what it feels like to be seventeen and live under the same roof with Milda, her step-aunt, a gruff butcher who treats her like a modern-day Cinderella, and in the company of her daughter Greta, a girl who is Emily's exact opposite: popular at school, curvy, and uninhibited. Everything seems destined to remain as it is, until one day Emily—who has been eating too little for some time—loses her strength and is entrusted to the care of a center for girls with eating disorders. There, amidst friendships, enmities, and new experiences, she discovers an energy within her ready to explode. It will be up to her to decide what to do with it: push herself further into the abyss or finally face herself? Chiara Iezzi writes a novel in which the protagonist has the power of a fairytale heroine, and evil exists and comes in many forms. But it can also be fought.