Enchantment - Softcover

Three boys, three diverging destinies - but what, or who, is pulling the strongs?

A village in the Tuscan hills, a summer of sun and chirping cicadas, and three boys who are utterly different but bound to each other in friendship: Jacopo, the narrator, bored son of a bourgeois family; Greg, the only heir of his father's enormous wealth; and Biagio, as poor, free and strange as Huckleberry Finn. In the course of that summer, an ancient motorbike they restore and a stretch of previously broken road that has magically turned into gleaming asphalt overnight, signal the beginning of an adventure that will take all three of them far away. A few months later, Biagio begins his eccentric career as a champion motorbike racer; Jacopo, after finding a mysterious postcard in a textbook, wins a scholarship that allows him to grapple with the mysteries and challenges of Physics at a British university; Greg, meanwhile, disappears into a luminous cloud of high finance. Yet despite being thousands of miles apart, the three have never been closer in spirit - as they discover sex and love, that most potent of magnets and most inestimable mystery, which has "more to do with the universe than with the world". But is it destiny or a more earthly force that is determining the course of their lives?