Carnevale

Written by Michelle Lovric

Narrated by Jilly Bond, Leighton Pugh and Multiple Narrators

1782. The 13 year old daughter of a Venetian merchant family is lured naked from her bath by a stray cat and finds herself in the arms of Casanova - the legendary seducer of women. Twenty-five years later Cecilia is in Albania, now a portrait painter of some renown. Enter a young man from England, a troubled poet, looking for adventure at any price - a man who begins his affair with Cecilia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd
• Release date: Nov 5, 2015
• ISBN: 9781510018815

Michelle Lovric

Michelle Lovric is the author of five novels - Carnevale, The Floating Book (winner of a London Arts Award and chosen as a W H Smith Read of the Week) and The Remedy (longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction) - as well as four children's novels, The Undrowned Child and The Mourning Emporium. She combines her fiction work with editing, designing and producing literary anthologies including her own translations of Latin and Italian poetry. Her book Love Letters was a New York Times bestseller. Lovric divides her time between London and Venice, and holds workshops in both places with published writers of poetry and prose, fiction and memoir. www.michellelovric.com

Reviews for Carnevale

[macha_4 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

the setting's really well done - Venice in the period is possibly the most vivid character. the whole thing's really a clinical study contrasting Casanova and Byron's approach to women, and as such definitely not a romance, but i found it fairly engrossing. and there's a really nice treatment of Mary Shelley among the minor characters.