The tranquil lakeside of Bracciano near Rome is one of the settings for my book If You Loved Me -a story of love, loss and a cat called Leonardo. Amy, my heroine, visits it with her lover, Davide. They sit in a lakeside resturn and eat grilled lake fish, coregone They take a ferry to Trevignano. 'She fell in love with the place as they stepped through the medieval gateway to wander the old streets studded with flowery window boxes, meandering from the quay up the hillside. On the upper piazza, she stood and gazed as if she could never have enough of the breathtaking lake views.' Back in  Bracciano, as the sun sets, Davide kisses her.