Yes Giorgio

By Anne Piper

Could anybody be more prosaic, less romantic, less gallant and more constant than a solid Welsh socialist husband of ten years standing? Why, only a forty-year-old Latin lover, of course…

Rose Williams was not only married, Welsh, thirty and sensible, she was also in America on a scholarship to study Americans and their way of life. But it was Georgio, an Italian professor of International Law, who claimed her attention, and whisked her away in his blue convertible on a motel trip across the States. As we follow this strangely incongruous pair, quarrelling, coming together, travelling uneasily along electrically charged parallel lines, a wonderfully real and delightfully comic picture emerges of infidelity and the strange workings of love and conventions.

With a sure touch and never a trace of sentimentality, Anne Piper makes this story of an adulterous affair both biting and tender.

Anne Piper was born in Cardiff and met David Piper in Cambridge, just prior to the second world war. They married in 1945 and shortly after, begun the writing of the first of nine novels. Yes, Giorgio (1961) was made into a film. Other novels include Cuckoo and Early to Bed. Anne Piper died at the age of 96 after following an energetic and full life. She is survived by her four children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

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