
Author: Barbara Oliverio
Narrator: Faye Wagner
Length: 7 hours and 28 minutes
Publisher: Scolapasta Press
Released: Feb. 6, 2019
Genre: Romantic Comedy

By the readers' favorite award-winning author, Barbara Oliverio. Barbara's "Love on the Lido Deck" was recently made into a Hallmark Channel Movie.
Annalise Fontana is feeling blue with no job, no boyfriend, and packed among her childhood memories in her parents' home. What could be more enticing than the opportunity to serve as a companion to her elderly Auntie Lil on a senior citizens' tour of China (with a side trip to Singapore)? She digs out her passport and packs her bags and assumes that she's in for a tranquil Jane Austenesque journey.
Nothing could be further from the truth as the trip takes a turn before they even leave the country. What follows is a lively journey with a cast of quirky travel companions who are anything but dull. The Fontana girls immediately fit in to the festive group.
While visiting heart-stopping sights, Annalise also has her heart begin pounding faster as she meets a number of charming young men. But who is the mysterious, brooding stranger who seems to pop up on the streets of Singapore, in Beijing's Forbidden City, and stays on her mind at the Great Wall of China?


Readers' Favorite Award™ Winner Barbara Oliverio is the daughter of Italian immigrants and a real coal miner’s daughter. She grew up in West Virginia with a love of reading and a passion for learning. Following a career path that included being a teacher, journalist, and marketer, she has lived as far away from home as Italy where she practiced her family's native tongue and took advantage of living near other European countries to travel extensively.Her life-long joy in writing has culminated in novels that focus on young Catholic women in a positive light. Readers of all backgrounds have fallen in love with her charming characters who come from close-knit Catholic families who live out their faith.She is also a freelance editor, professional book critic, and mentors blossoming writers on their own paths.A rabid Pittsburgh Steeler fan, she lives with her husband, an equally committed New York Giants fan, outside Orlando where off-football-season dinner conversation is calmer and is usually accompanied by a meal she cooks from one of her mother's treasured recipes. Other interests include New York Times crossword puzzles, good movies, and travel.
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After touring the country with Broadway’s “Annie”, Faye studied at the famed Moscow Art Theatre, in winter, for the full Chekov experience. Returning to the sunshine of Los Angeles, she earned her BA in Theatre Arts magna cum laude from Loyola Marymount University. Faye’s stage work includes a Broadwayworld award winning turn in “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and “The Grapes of Wrath” directed by MacArthur “Genius” winner David Cromer. TV work includes “Law and Order: True Crime”, “I Love Dick”, “Ray Donovan”, “Lucky Louie”, “’til Death”, and “The War at Home”.
Character(s) Actor
Annalise Fontana Lacey Chabert
Eli Chamberlain Henry Golding
Lilliana (Auntie Lil) Fontana Rita Moreno
Genio Cusamano Armand Assante
Georgiann (Georgi) Pierini Ivonne Coll
Tom Pierini Joe Montegna
Rory Bella Thorne
Breck Domnhall Gleeson
“Bear” Willems Chi McBride
Frida Willems Lisa Kudrow
Father John John Ratzenberger
Frank- Annalise’s father Dan Lauria
Maria - Annalise’s mother Julie Walters
Nicky (Annalise’s brother) Giacomo Gianniotti
Sister Mary Grace Jayma Mays
Jasper Taron Egerton
Colette Ehlers Helena Bonham Carter
Katherine (Kat) and Vivienne (Viv) Dianne Wiest and Christine Baranski
Yan Mei Christine Ko

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