Book description
A dramatic and inspiring page-turner that illuminates the power of love.
Thirty-three-year-old Bill Fitzgerald is an acclaimed American
television foreign correspondent. War-weary and exhausted after a long
stint in Bosnia, he travels to Venice to meet Francis Xavier Peterson,
and old friend and war correspondent for Time magazine.
Vanessa Stewart is a twenty-seven-year-old glass designer from New
York. She's also in Venice , visiting the glass-blowing works in Murano.
Whilst at the bar of the Gritti Palace Hotel on the Grand Canal with
Frankie, Bill is struck by the dark beauty of a young woman seated
alone. The young woman is Vanessa. The three expatriates meet and decide
that, as Americans in Venice , they should celebrate Thanksgiving
together. And that evening, full of warmth and comaraderie, begins an
illicit though fateful love affair. Barbara Taylor Bradford was born
and raised in England. She started her writing career on the Yorkshire
Evening Post and later worked as a journalist in London. Her first
novel, A Woman of Substance, became an enduring bestseller and was
followed by twenty-three others, including the bestselling Harte series.
In 2006 The Ravenscar Dynasty began an epic new family series around
Ravenscar and the house of Deravenel. Barbara's books have sold more
than eighty-one million copies worldwide in more than ninety countries
and forty languages. In October of 2007, Barbara was appointed an OBE by
the Queen for her services to literature. She lives in New York City
with her husband, television producer Robert Bradford.
