{"product_id":"palace-of-the-drowned-9781408713648","title":"Palace of the Drowned","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003eSequestered within an aging palazzo, Frankie finds comfort in the emptiness of Venice in winter, in the absence of others. \u003cbr\u003eAnd then Gilly appears.\u003cbr\u003eA 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 fast friends. But there''s something about her that continues to give Frankie pause, that makes her wonder just how much of what Gilly tells her is actually the truth.\u003cbr\u003eThose around Frankie are quick to dismiss her concerns, citing what took place that night at the Savoy. So too do they dismiss Frankie''s claims that someone is occupying the other half of the palazzo, which has supposedly stood empty since after the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her taut and mesmerizing follow up to \u003ci\u003eTangerine\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003ePalace of the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDrowned \u003c\/i\u003emore 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\u003cbr\u003eA malice-infused mystery. \u003cb\u003eWhen you learn the truth at the end, you'll want to go back and rethink everything you read before \u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eVenice in winter - all dank, smelly canals and swirling fog. Lovely stuff. A boisterously melodramatic climax * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eA 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 *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47836859302231,"sku":"9781408713648","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781408713648.jpg?v=1710383887","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/palace-of-the-drowned-9781408713648","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}