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  Miss Garnet's Angel (Paperback) By (author) Salley Vickers

  

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  Short Description for Miss Garnet's AngelStories magically unfold within this novel's tale of Miss Julia Garnet, a school teacher who decides, after the death of her longtime friend, Harriet, to take an apartment for six months in Venice. Overwhelmed by the beauty of the city and its magnificent art, Miss Garnet's English reserve begins to melt away. For the first time in her life she falls in love and her once ordinary world is further
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  • Publisher: Plume Books
  • Published: 02 April 2002
  • Format: Paperback 352 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780452282971 ISBN 10: 0452282977
  • Sales rank: 120,413

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• After the death of her longtime friend and flatmate, retired British history teacher Julia Garnet does something completely out of character: She takes a six-month rental on a modest appartamento in Venice. An atheist, a Communist, and a virgin, Julia finds herself falling beneath the seductive spell of the city's intoxicating beauty and sensual religiosity. She befriends a young Italian boy and English twins who are restoring a fourteenth-century chapel. And she falls in love for the first time in her life with an art dealer named Carlo. Juxtaposing Julia's journey of self-discovery with the apocryphal tale of Tobias and the Archangel Raphael, Miss Garnet's Angel tells a lyrical, incandescent story of love, loss, miracles, and redemption . . . and of one woman's transformation and epiphany. Already a bestseller in England, it is "novel-writing at its finest and most eloquent . . . splendid . . . the sort of book that effortlessly, like angels, or sunlight on Venice's rippling waterways, casts brightness and beauty into those private and most shadowed recesses of the human heart" (The Christian Science Monitor). "Vickers has taken myth, religion, and secular humanism, and turned them into substantial life-affirming fiction." (The Philadelphia Inquirer) "A refreshing, gentle story." (Anita Brookner)