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Miss Garnets Angel

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After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest appartamento in Venice. An atheist, a Communist, and a virgin, Julia finds herself falling beneath the seductive spell of the city's intoxicating beauty and sensual religiosity. She befriends a young Italian boy and English twins who are restoring a fourteenth-century chapel. And she falls in love for the first time in her life with an art dealer named Carlo.

Juxtaposing Julia's journey of self-discovery with the apocryphal tale of Tobias and the Archangel Raphael, Miss Garnet's Angel tells a lyrical, incandescent story of love, loss, miracles, and redemption . . . and of one woman's transformation and epiphany. Already a bestseller in England, it is novel-writing at its finest and most eloquent . . . splendid . . . the sort of book that effortlessly, like angels, or sunlight on Venice's rippling waterways, casts brightness and beauty into those private and most shadowed recesses of the human heart (The Christian Science Monitor).

Vickers has taken myth, religion, and secular humanism, and turned them into substantial life-affirming fiction. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

A refreshing, gentle story. (Anita Brookner)

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Julia Garnet goes to live in Venice. Its beauty overwhelms a lifetime of reserve and caution. Above all, she's touched by the spirit of the Angel, Raphael. Twinned with her journey is that of Tobias, who is determined that his son should recover the family debt and allow his father to die in peace.

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A novel which interweaves the story of a retired teacher living in Venice, with that of her ageing father, and a varied cast of ancient travellers, priests, restorers and American tourists. 'Rich, complex, haunting' "Sunday Times"

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Loretta Dunne, January 3, 2010 (view all comments by Loretta Dunne)
This is a magical story about a women finding her passions and loves later in life. Not a romance, but a book whose main character discovers her soul. A quick, enjoyable read.
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I love this book! It is so much fun to read it and then try to find and visit the places that are mentioned in the book in Venice.
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ISBN:
9780006514213
Author:
VICKERS, SALLEY
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Author:
Vickers, Salley
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Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
2001
Edition Description:
NEW ED
Publication Date:
20010402
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Pages:
416
Dimensions:
197 x 130 in.
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Product details 416 pages HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS - English 9780006514213 Reviews:
"Synopsis" by , Julia Garnet goes to live in Venice. Its beauty overwhelms a lifetime of reserve and caution. Above all, she's touched by the spirit of the Angel, Raphael. Twinned with her journey is that of Tobias, who is determined that his son should recover the family debt and allow his father to die in peace.
"Synopsis" by , A novel which interweaves the story of a retired teacher living in Venice, with that of her ageing father, and a varied cast of ancient travellers, priests, restorers and American tourists. 'Rich, complex, haunting' "Sunday Times"

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