Dorothea E-Book

Lucilla Marini

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2026

Beschreibung

Dorothea English edition

How will Dorothea find her way in the new school? She is a very sensitive child, searching for someone who can understand her vulnerabilities and longing to find a place where she can truly feel at home.

In this special school, she will meet unique classmates and discover the value of small gestures, of tenderness and friendship. Together with her new friends, she will learn to savour the simple joys of every day and find the strength to overcome any difficulty.

Leseprobe

LUCILLA MARINI

DOROTHEA

A Novel

Titolo | Dorothea

Autore | Lucilla Marini

Cover image created with WOMBO DREAM for android - AI Art Generator (Wombo Studio Inc, https://www.w.ai), from an image by the author.

This English edition was created with professional human editing and proofreading.

Digital edition in English, MARCH 2025, translated with the assistance of DeepL (www.deepl.com), published on blog:

https://lucillamarini.wixsite.com/lucillamarini

Audiobook edition in italian, 2024, published by Youcanprint, wwww.youcanprint.it

Digital edition in italian, SEPTEMBER 2024 edited by the author, published on blog:

https://lucillamarini.wixsite.com/lucillamarini

Printed edition in italian, OCTOBER 2021 Published by Librati di Ascoli Piceno www.librati.it - [email protected]

All references to existing or existing people and real events are purely coin-cidental

Author's blog: https://lucillamarini.wixsite.com/lucillamarini

ISBN | 9791224045625

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To my mother

Foreword

Some time ago, after publishing the book, I thought it would be wonderful to have it translated into English. I searched the internet to see if any other novels were titled ‘Dorotea’. I was amazed when I found links to Dorothy Goodman and her schools. I felt honoured to have, in a way, brought forward an idea that someone in another country had already put into practice with great success. The coincidence was astonishing, particularly because the school’s founder shared the same name as the pro-tagonist of my novel.

Some might think I was inspired by these schools for the book; however, I only discovered their existence months af-ter it was published. I prefer to think that Dorothea’s spirit wanted to inspire me to shine a light on a particular need in Italy. It is a need often identified with old, forbidding asylums, which leads to a fear of establishing these kinds of schools, or even of recognising the importance of those that al-ready exist. This comes from the idea that such schools might make children feel isolated.

There is a genuine need for special school facilities that can connect with mainstream schools attended by other children. I believe this can all be achieved if the intention is positive, if we involve the pupils by asking them what they truly want, and if we try to create environments where they feel safe and happy.

Preface

Dorothea was born on a day when my mind was qui-et.

Relaxed, lying on my bed with my eyes closed, a vivid and simple image appeared: two concentric circles, coloured blue and green, pulsating as they embraced a ladybird. I drew it immediately, using an application on my phone.

In the afternoon, the name suddenly came to me: Dorothea.

I thought, This could be the story of a little girl. The book cover is here; the image from this morning is perfect. I must check online how to publish it.

A preface was needed to send along with the book. I began writing it before I even had the plot in mind, telling myself that it too would come. And it did. A few days later, it slowly formed in my head, and I had almost no time to write it down. The ideas were arriving in a chaotic rush, waiting to be put in order.

Who is Dorothea?

She is an inquisitive child who sometimes gets anx-ious about small things, or she gets excited and has a great de-sire to laugh, play, and be cuddled. But she can also get angry, in an absurd way, deep inside herself.

She loves solitude and silence very much, but some-times she grows sad, alone.

With her mum she makes her own chocolates, ‘almond eyes’, which she insists taste better than any from a shop (delusions of grandeur, which I suppose we all have).

Lucia is her favourite friend and Andrea is her com-panion of the heart. Dorothea loves ‘special’ children like her and her new school. She is a ‘special’ child, as ‘special’ as any child in the world.