Name: Miss Garnet’s Angel
ISBN: 9780007364336

Salley Vickers

Salley Vicker’s sensational debut novel, ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’, is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time.

Miss Garnet’s Angel

After the death of her longtime friend Harriet, schoolteacher Julia Garnet takes an apartment in Venice for six months, falls in love for the first time with an art dealer named Carlo, and unravels the ancient story of Tobias and the Angel at her new church. A first novel. Reprint.

Miss Garnet's Angel

Rose Stanley

I wanted to like this more, but found it too gloomy! I did like the dual narrative though, and would have preferred a book solely on the Tobias and the Angel story. I suppose I could just have leafed through the Apocrypha, which I think I might do anyway...

Miss Garnet’s Angel

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