I would like to nominate
The Bay of Noon by Shirley Hazzard.
Quote:
Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memory.
A young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and so changes her life forever. Through the letter, she meets Giocanda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and Gianni, a famous Roman film director and Giocanda’s lover. At work she encounters Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of these three, she discovers that the past--and the patterns of a lifetime--are not easily discarded. (From Goodreads.)
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Shirley Hazzard was an Australian born writer, the daughter of diplomats, who among other things worked for British Intelligence in Hong Kong, monitoring civil war in China, and worked for the United Nations Secretariat in New York.
Available from Kobo $US7.99:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-bay-of-noon
and from Amazon, also $US7.99:
https://www.amazon.com/Bay-Noon-Nove...RZS?pldnSite=1