'A rare and wonderfully written book of literary detection that is heartbreaking as well as thrilling, about the afterlifeA" of a writer's manuscripts and the things he carried.' Michael Ondaatje 'It's exquisite, delicate, fascinating. I put Proust's Overcoat on the same shelf as Serena Vitale's Pushkin's Button and Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.' Edmund White 'Foschini delightfully recounts this adventure as if writing a novella, except that everything she writes about is actually true.' Le Monde 'Foschini leads her readers to a titillating and ludicrous surprise Proust would have adored.' La Repubblica

LORENZA FOSCHINI is an Italian journalist, writer and television news anchorwoman, and a former Vatican correspondent. She is the author of Investigation at Millennium's End (Rizzoli), which won the Prix Scanno. Born in Naples, she lives in Rome