Pid zirkoiu, shcho tantsiuie - Laura Wood

Kmitlyva Bea, lyubytelʹka nauky, trokhy buntivna, trokhy nez·hrabna. Batʹky tysnutʹ na neyi neobkhidnistyu shlyubu, bo treba utrymuvaty mayetok, yakyy nalezhytʹ yikhniy batʹkivshchyni vzhe 500 rokiv! Bea pruchayetʹsya, ostannya kraplya na zvaniy vechiri… y op — yiyi vidsylayutʹ do Italiyi, shchob pokrashchyty manery ta dodaty trokhy svit·sʹkoho losku. Divchyna opynyayetʹsya na prekrasniy villi zi svoyim dyadʹkom, yoho narechenoyu ta kupoyu yikhnikh hostey-myttsiv. Bea vidkryvaye yaskravyy svit bohemy, do yakoho nalezhytʹ i Ben, derzkyy i vrodlyvyy molodyy khudozhnyk. Mizh dotepnoyu paroyu spalakhuyutʹ iskry: kepkuvannya, piddrazhnyuvannya. Chy tsi nariky pererostutʹ u kokhannya? Dovhe, spekotne lito potsilunkiv i pustot shche tryvaye. Ale nad Yevropoyu vzhe zbyrayutʹsya khmary, i klyche dim. Shkirne lito maye zakinchuvatysya, ale dlya Bea vono mozhe staty pochatkom.