The Choice - Severini, Orsola

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1 Add to cart Price: $24.95 Page Count: 136 Publication Date: November 2025 ISBN: 978-1-77258-549-0 Orsola is 34, lives in Rome with her husband, two young children, a big dog, and what seems like a perfect life. Raised by strict feminist and communist parents, her greatest dream has always been motherhood. After two joyful pregnancies, she decides to try for a third. But at the crucial 12-week scan, everything changes: a severe fetal anomaly is discovered, with possible outcomes being miscarriage or death shortly after birth. What follows is a harrowing journey through Italy's healthcare system, where abortion is legal but nearly inaccessible - blocked by conscientious objectors, outdated facilities, and a deafening lack of support. As Orsola and her husband Marco face grief and impossible choices, she also mourns the recent loss of her father, a warm, eccentric communist doctor from Calabria. His absence is felt deeply. This true story is both intimate and political - a powerful, urgent indictment of a society that punishes women for choosing, suffering, and surviving....

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Born in Rome in 1981 to a French mother and an Italian father, Orsola Severini has a BA in Contemporary History and an MA in Linguistics from the Sorbonne University. In addition to teaching French, she writes for the online newspaper Globalist. She made her debut in 2021 with the autobiographical novel Il Consolo. In 2023, she published the short story Yesterday in the women's anthology Arripizzari. Her latest novel, La quarta compagna (2024), explores the role of women in the Italian Resistance....