What a strange book this is, an odd mixture of denial and passion. It's often hilarious in it's outrageous, over the top, retelling of the heyday of Il Duce. But the glossing over of the realties of Fascism and Mussolini's pact with Hitler can get very sickening. In the end Signora Mussolini claims that "peace prevails in her heart", but somehow, in her narcissism, she has forgotten all the people that suffered besides Duce and her.