Daphne grows up in the conservative environment of pre-war Athens, which she has silently accepted for many years.
After some time, her older sister, who permanently lives abroad, reappears in Daphne's life, bringing along with her the cosmopolitan air of the West and the vastness of music by enveloping her completely in the face of a man.
The immortal melody of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 that permeates the meeting of these three people, brings the heroine face to face with her inner world in a game of fatal reflections.
About the Author: Aphrodite Mermiga-Vlachaki was born in Athens. She is a graduate of the Ursuline Franco-Hellenic School and the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies of the University of Athens, while she also has a degree in music in piano playing from the Athens Conservatoire.
She gave piano lessons in a private music school for a short period of time, before being appointed a philologist in the Arsakeion-Tositseion Schools, where she still teaches. She has been an active supporter of cultural events in the field of education by organizing performances in student theatrical festivals, rhetorical debates, and school events, adapting and directing theatrical plays, and providing music coordination.
In 2011, her first novel under the title "There is Summer in Rome Too" was published in Greece, followed by the publication of her novella Daphne in 2014; both by CaptainBook.gr Publishing.
Her poems have been featured in published poetry collections, while her poem Lì ti ho visto won an award in the international poetry contest Premio Accademico Internazionale di Poesia e Arte Contemporanea Apollo dionisiaco in 2015, Rome.
She is married with two children: a son and a daughter.
