A psychological diary novel by Lupe Farkas
Before October Ends
A Life for a Life
Some promises save your life. Others ask for it.
At forty, Elisabetta Rossi leaves Milan with a private promise and ninety days to live differently. In Tuscany, she opens a diary. Then people begin to give her reasons to question the ending she has chosen.
The Tuscan Trilogy · Book One · Author’s Revised Edition · English
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About the book
Ninety days to discover whether another life is possible.
At forty, Elisabetta Rossi has done everything correctly. She built a successful career as a lawyer in Milan, lived by duty and discipline, and became exceptionally good at meeting expectations. None of it taught her how to want to stay.
She makes herself a private promise: ninety days to experience the things she never tried, ask the questions she avoided, and live without postponing everything that might make her feel alive. She leaves Milan, rents a house in a small Tuscan village and begins documenting the experiment in her diary.
But Italy gives her more than a beautiful place to disappear. New friendships, unexpected forms of love, old wounds and the lives unfolding around her begin to interfere with the ending she believed she had already chosen.
Before October Ends is a character-driven psychological novel about starting over at forty, the performance of happiness, belonging, mortality and the unsettling possibility that changing everything may still not be enough to change yourself.
Inside the story
A diary about the truths we postpone.
01
Starting over at forty
What happens when a woman stops living by obligation and begins asking what she actually wants?
02
Complicated happiness
A search for joy without easy answers, forced optimism or the promise that reinvention fixes everything.
03
Belonging and connection
The strangers, friends and unexpected relationships that make leaving a life more complicated.
04
The stories we tell ourselves
A first-person diary shaped by memory, control and the difference between a decision and the truth.
For readers
This book may stay with you if…
You like getting close to a complicated character and following her thoughts, even when they become uncomfortable.
- You enjoy psychological literary fiction driven by character, voice and interior life.
- You love diary novels and stories told through intimate personal documents.
- You enjoy stories set in Italy, with everyday lives and complicated relationships behind the scenery.
- You are drawn to complicated women, reinvention and starting over later in life.
- You want a story about friendship, belonging, mortality and happiness without easy conclusions.
Edition information
Book details
Author
Lupe Farkas
Series
The Tuscan Trilogy, Book One
Genre
Psychological literary fiction
Form
First-person diary novel
Setting
Milan and Tuscany, Italy
Language
English
Edition
Author’s Revised Edition
Publisher
LGGG Ltd, United Kingdom
Reader content guidance
This novel explores depression, suicidal thoughts, grief, emotional distress, mental-health treatment and the use of medication. It is intended for adult readers. Please choose the reading experience that feels safe for you.
Before you read
Frequently asked questions
Can I read Before October Ends with Kindle Unlimited?
The English Kindle edition is available through Kindle Unlimited. Open the Kindle listing on Amazon to check eligibility for your account and store. A Kindle Unlimited membership is required. You can also buy the eBook separately.
Is Before October Ends a romance novel?
No. Relationships and different forms of love are important to the story, but Before October Ends is psychological literary fiction, not a romance novel.
Is Before October Ends part of a series?
Yes. It is Book One of The Tuscan Trilogy. The second volume is in development.
Where is the novel set?
The story begins in Milan and moves to a small village in Tuscany, Italy. The Italian setting shapes the atmosphere, relationships and emotional journey, but the novel is about far more than travel or scenery.
Is the book written as a diary?
Yes. The novel follows a ninety-day countdown through Elisabetta Rossi’s personal diary, creating an intimate and sometimes unreliable view of her experiment.
Which editions are available?
The author’s revised English edition is available for Kindle and in paperback. The novel is also published in Italian and Brazilian Portuguese.
Before October Ends · Lupe Farkas
Open Elisabetta’s diary.
Ninety days. A private promise. A life she hasn’t tried.
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