On the GO stage, Roberta Recchia, winner of the AMO QUESTO LIBRO 2025 Award, assigned by all Giunti al Punto booksellers! Recchia will present her latest book Io che ti ho voluto così bene (Rizzoli) in conversation with Pietro Romiti. Afterwards, Irene Gargano will present the award to the author.

The book:

Luca is not yet fourteen, but he has a quiet sensitivity that sets him apart from his peers. He lives with his parents and older brother in a seaside town where everything seems unchanging: a safe place that comes alive each year with the arrival of summer. One summer, a vibrant girl becomes his first dream of love. But when she disappears and the police show up at their door, the lives of Luca and his family are forever marked. To shield him—still a child in his innocence—from the shadow spreading relentlessly over the family, his mother hastily packs his suitcase and sends him on a train with a one-way ticket. Up North, his uncle Umberto, a high-school teacher, and aunt Mara with his cousins await him. In a world completely different from the one of his childhood, Luca tries to rebuild himself; he grows and puts down new roots, searching for meaning in words like trust and belonging. Supporting him are Uncle Umberto, who gives him everything he can, and Flavia, a determined girl intent on helping him rediscover hope for the future. With her delicate and profound prose, Roberta Recchia brings to life intense relationships, vibrant dialogues, and a story that holds us close until the very last page. A graceful novel about the possibility of rebirth and forgiveness, with a protagonist who wins us over and moves us from the start—because his voice reaches us with all the fullness of silence and whispered truths.

The author:

Roberta Recchia is a writer with a degree in European and American Languages and Literatures, known for her debut novel Tutta la vita che resta, which has been translated into numerous countries. She worked for many years in the corporate world, but before making her narrative debut she devoted herself to writing texts for herself and her family. She later embarked on a career as an English teacher and also worked in technical translation.