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Bitter greens: Book Club set Kate Forsyth.

Bitter greens: Book Club set Kate Forsyth.
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BookClub/F
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ISBN 9781741668483
Shelf Location BookClub/F
Book Club
Author Forsyth, Kate, 1966-
Title Bitter greens : Book Club set / Kate Forsyth.
Publication Details North Sydney, N.S.W. ::
2013. Vintage Books,,
Collation 554 pages : 24 cm. ; 10 copies ;
General Note "First published by Vintage in 2012"--Title page verso.
Abstract/Summary Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from court by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. She is comforted by an old nun, Sœur Seraphina, who tells her the tale of a young girl who, a hundred years earlier, is sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens. After Margherita's father steals a handful of greens - parsley, wintercress and rapunzel - from the walled garden of the courtesan, Selena Leonelli, they give up their daughter to save him from having both hands cut off. Selena is the famous red-haired muse of the artist Tiziano, first painted by him in 1512 and still inspiring him at the time of his death, sixty-four years later. Called La Strega Bella, Selena is at the centre of Renaissance life in Venice, a world of beauty and danger, seduction and betrayal, love and superstition. Locked away in a tower, growing to womanhood, Margherita sings in the hope that someone will hear her. One day, a young man does. Three women, three lives, three stories, braided together to create a compelling story of desire, obsession, black magic, and the redemptive power of love.
Subject Man-woman relationship -- Fiction
Book Club set
Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559 -- Fiction.
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