Cassie McCullough

Yes, it's in San Giacomo di Capri, which is clearly a street.

What's it like?

Have you been to that street?

And this explains why the grades falling is such an issue for Andrea and Nella.

But Vittoria, as you say, she's down in the industrial zone, in the vomero.

Is that the right sort of description of it?

Yep.

And she's still in this grinding poverty that Andrea has managed to elevate himself from.

Yes, and they speak Italian, whereas we learn Vittoria, when we meet her, speaks in dialect and has to choose to speak in Italian.

That's not naturally what she does.

Stephanie Smee, let's talk about Vittoria, because this comment sets Giovanna on a path,

It's almost like even the invocation of talking about Victoria and even uttering her name has set the path of the events that are about to unfold.

But it draws Giovanna to find Victoria and eventually we meet her.

What did you make of her?

Look, I'm going to put it right out there.

I think Victoria is one of the most amazing characters I've read in years.

I think she's absolutely brilliant.

I think she's a brilliant creation.

When finally they meet and Giovanna opens the door or sees her for the first time in her squalid flat,

She's sort of shocked by what she looks like, but she sees her as beautiful.