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Book SynopsisFrom the author of the critically acclaimed Tangerine.
When you learn the truth at the end, you''ll want to go back and rethink everything you read before - New York Times
A delightfully seductive dance of yearning and suspicion, where the old is always on notice that it must at some point make way for the new - i newspaper
In Venice, Frances Croy is working to leave the previous year behind: another novel published to little success, a scathing review she can''t quite manage to forget, and, most of all, the real reason behind her self-imposed exile from London: the incident at the Savoy.
Sequestered within an aging palazzo, Frankie finds comfort in the emptiness of Venice in winter, in the absence of others.
And then Gilly appears.
A young woman claiming a connection from back home, one that Frankie can''t quite seem to recall, Gilly seems determined for the two women to become fa
Trade Review
In her taut and mesmerizing follow up to Tangerine, the preternaturally gifted Christine Mangan plunges us into another exotic and bewitchingly rendered locale, this time Venice off-season, moody and damp, where well-known novelist Frankie Croy has gone to escape dark memories. Instead, a surprise entanglement with a mysterious young woman sets Frankie on edge, threatening to unravel her already precarious mental state. Voluptuously atmospheric and surefooted at every turn, Palace of the Drowned more than delivers on the promise of Mangan's debut, and firmly establishes her as a writer of consequence -- Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark
A malice-infused mystery. When you learn the truth at the end, you'll want to go back and rethink everything you read before * New York Times *
Venice in winter - all dank, smelly canals and swirling fog. Lovely stuff. A boisterously melodramatic climax * The Times *
A delightfully seductive dance of yearning and suspicion, where the old is always on notice that it must at some point make way for the new. * i newspaper *
