![]() ![]() However, when one particularly distressed young mother pleads with Alda to be allowed to keep her baby, Alda takes her request to the Mother Superior. The process is overseen by nuns, and Alda is a novice, soon to take her vows and become a full member of the order. Elizabeth’s Infant Hospital, where unmarried mothers from Catholic families are brought to bear their children in secret: at birth, the children are whisked away for adoption. ![]() We first meet Italian-born Alda Ducci at St. A New York Times bestseller, All the Stars in the Heavens is Trigiani’s 14th novel: “Eminently readable and richly imagined, Trigiani’s latest will thrill her fans and surely collect new ones” ( Publishers’ Weekly). The two women negotiate the temptations of fame and the strictures governing women’s lifestyles in the 1930s. Based on the life of legendary American actress Loretta Young, American author Adriana Trigiani’s novel All the Stars in the Heavens (2015) follows (fictional) convent girl Alda Ducci as she becomes Young’s private secretary. ![]()
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