Eleven women recount their lives and loves with other women during the 1950s, the most moralistic and bigoted decade in our recent history. Loves lived in hiding, often covered by the respectability of friendship, consummated in haste, at home, with the alibi of an invitation, in the absence of their husbands. Loves that could not leave the domestic walls to avoid scandal or, even worse, the psychiatric treatment imposed on those who were even suspected of lesbianism. A series of testimonies on a topic still partly taboo in Italy, narrated with irony and a taste for telling the illicit and the lighthearted subterfuge. All seasoned with recipes for old-fashioned delicacies. (Source: Google books)
Matteo B. Bianchi, born Matteo Bianchi, is an Italian writer and television author.
