«Silvia Zucca will make you laugh to the point of tears. She will make you root for the most bumbling and lovable character you’ll ever meet. She will make you feel heartbreak, joy, and everything in between. I promise you, you will be so captivated by this novel, you will absolutely not be able to put it down. I sure couldn’t.»
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I’ve never had any faith in astrology. You know when your horoscope tells you it’s a great period, you have three stars for love, work and health, and instead you feel like a wet rag, you’ve just been dumped by your boyfriend and you risk losing your job? Welcome to the club of the intergalactically ill-fated!
My name’s Alice Bassi and up to a few months ago my self-esteem was reduced to an all-time low.
My historical ex was about to become a father and an impossibly sexy hatchet man had just arrived at the place where I worked, making my position even worse.

The fact that I’m Libra didn’t help matters.

It all seemed as though I should have been the spokeswoman for love and graciousness, when in actual fact I’d have had a good chance in the Spinster Olympics 2014 - and graciousness was light years away. So that’s why I didn’t believe in horoscopes, until Tio came into my life – Tio, my Astrological Personal Trainer – to explain that it’s not so simple and the fact I’d been the Little Match Girl of the Zodiac wasn’t because of some huge gap in the stars but because of the position of the planets in the Astrological Quadrant of my Birth Chart.
Like saying “Thanks, Mum!”
So the only thing to be done was roll up my sleeves and find out what sort of fate the stars had in store for me.
And I assure you I found out a whole lot, first and foremost that in the realm of love, the stars don’t make a bit of difference!

A Graduate in English literature with a thesis on Shakespearean theatre and a passion for storytelling in all its various forms, Silvia Zucca combines writing with studies of cinema and filmmaking. She is also a literary translator (she translated Fifty Shades Darker, by E.L. James, and the first two chapters of the trilogy Crossfire by Sylvia Day). She lives and works in Milan and as well as writing she loves folk dancing, cats, wine, movies and good books