Lynn Rodolico

"SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL" --Tommy Sørbø, Author, "Walking in Tuscany"

Lynn Rodolico was born in 1953 in Santa Monica, California, and grew up in the coastal town of Pacific Palisades. Her earliest, happiest memories come from inventing stories beneath the large fruit trees in her backyard, and later, when she was old enough to roam, the dramatic pounding of the Pacific Ocean below the town's cliffs.

Writing had always been a favourite pastime but it wasn't until she left her job as Administrator of Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Massachusetts that she started writing full time. She gave herself one year in which to succeed or fail as a writer. To pay her rent and perfect her skills, first in the Berkshires and later in New York City, she wrote commercial novels in the Romance genre under a series of pseudonyms. Her success was quick and exceptional. Her first published novel, "Passion's Flight" sold 350,000 copies and was translated into seven languages. Her second novel, "Heart and Soul" proved a greater success, both commercially and literary, winning the Book of the Month Award in France. "Opening Bid" was another best seller romance and was translated into eleven languages. "Intimates" moved out of the romance category, allowing for real character development, but its circulation was thwarted when her editor changed publishing houses and the book remained orphaned in the warehouse.

In 1985 Lynn moved to Italy for a year to finish a novel. On her first day in Florence she met Antonino Rodolico, the man who would transform her life from a solitary search to a unified communion. "Two Seas" is a fictionalized memoir of their life on an olive farm in the Tuscan hills and their unexpected love affair with the Island of Sicily.

"THE NEW PARADISE" --Ranieri Polese

"Two grown daughters, a house surrounded with olive orchards at the door of Florence, a serene life spent on the banks of the Arno, what could have pushed Kate and Niccolo to search for the house of their dreams in Sicily? And why Erice, from which one views the converging of two seas? "Two Seas", by Lynn Rodolico, recounts as if a love story, the discovery of a place that promises the gift of happiness: the first moments in their dream house, the first months in the new paradise. Between the memories of her youth in America to her arrival in Florence, with her marriage and growing family, Kate lives fully the new season that the house in Erice offers. It is a book dedicated to all those who search for the ideal place, and who don't tire in the pursuit of their dreams."