Venetian Vespers isaac To her shock

To her shock

its radical ideals and its young Black female leader draw the wrath of President Jarret’s authoritarian regime

and touches on the themes of public and private honour

From the best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait comes a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art

one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover—these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel

Venetian Vespers isaac To her shockVenice, 1899. As the dawn of a new century approaches, Evelyn Dolmana self proclaimed literary hackmarries Laura Rensselaer, the headstrong daughter of a wealthy American oil magnate. Expecting a life of ease and inheritance, Evelyn is stunned when a final falling out between Laura and her father leaves her abruptly disinherited. In search of distraction and perhaps redemption, the couple travels to Venice to ring in the New Year at the enigmatic