Alba de Céspedes’ 1938 bestseller, once banned by Fascist censors in Italy, There’s No Turning Back, follows the lives of eight young woman living at the Grimaldi, a convent/boardinghouse in Rome. The novel is the third work by de Céspedes to be translated into English in recent years, a real renaissance for this revolutionary author… Continue reading There’s No Turning Back by Alba de Céspedes