CAROL DINE: Discusses her young adult novel, "The Queen's Soprano," the story of a 17th-century Roman girl who has the voice of an angel that nobody hears because the pope has forbidden women to sing in public. Her mother is determined to marry her off to a wealthy nobleman, even though she loves a poor artist. The author lives in Minneapolis and Rome, where she discovered and researched this
The Twin Towns is filled with people in their 80s who still live at home, the place where they raised their family, everything is familiar and they get along pretty well. The one thing many of these elderly persons don't do is drive.
