Author:
Alessia Gazzola
Publisher:
Feltrinelli
Release date:
24-03-2026
Emma De Tessent. A lifelong intern, in her thirties, pretty, from a good family, brilliant in her studies, and grounded in her values (almost always). Residence: Rome. For now—but only for now—she still lives with her mother. Secret dreams: a little house with wisteria where she retreats when she feels down; a man who probably exists only in the Regency novels she adores; a permanent job.
The day the film production company she works with decides not to renew her contract, Emma truly feels like one of the heroines of her beloved novels: alone against the world and an unfriendly fate. Disheartened and depressed, after a series of failed job interviews, she finds refuge in a children’s clothing shop, where she is hired as an assistant. And from there, everything changes.
But just when she begins to believe the storm has finally passed, the past comes knocking: the world of cinema wants her back. Should she return to chasing her dream, or stay where she is? And why has the author of the novel Emma has long wanted to adapt for the screen finally agreed to grant her the film rights? And what does that charming producer, who keeps hovering around the shop where she works, want from her?
Ten years after its first publication, “Non è la fine del mondo” returns to bookstores with a new foreword by the author and an unpublished scene, to mark the release of the film.