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Synopsis
When
a friend dies, Julia Garnet goes to stay in Venice where a
lifetime
of caution is challenged. She encounters the paintings in the
local church which tell the story of Tobias and the Angel.
The
ancient tale of Tobias, who travels to Media unaware he is accompanied
by the Archangel Raphael, unfolds alongside Julia Garnet's
contemporary
journey. As she unravels the story's history, Julia's own life
is thrown into question – for, like the shifting sea-light
of Venice, nothing here is quite as it seems.
Salley
Vickers writes with a poise and wit which belies the novel's deeper
themes: love, death and the growth of the human spirit. This many-layered
novel truly defies the usual categories; it echoes in the mind long
after the reader has turned the last page.
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