Miss Garnet's Angel

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  • Author: Salley Vickers
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Catalogue: 99526
  • Size: 13x20cm
The best friend's death and the prospect of spinsterhood in Ealing galvanizes Miss Garnet into deciding, in a moment of romantic recklessness, to relocate herself to Venice.

A lifetime habit of commonsense and emotional independence relaxes among the watery rhythms of Venice, as she abandons the guide bought at Stanfords to make her own mistakes and discoveries. Vickers uses the frieze of a small chapel in the process of restoration to link the story of Miss Garnet's blossoming with that of Tobias, journeying in the company of the Archangel Raphael two thousand years earlier in ancient Assyria. Vickers writes of both vividly, and the Venetian backdrop is highly evocative. For fans of Venice and art history this is perfect arm-chair traveling.