The Palazzo Colombina is home to the
Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace
on Venice’s Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant,
business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying.
But before he passes, he has secrets he’s waited his whole life to share.
When a Jewish classmate is attacked by
bullies, Nico just watches – earning him a week’s suspension and a typed,
yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his
grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and
madness . . .
Nico is transported back to the Venice of
1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining
moment of his grandfather’s life: when Paolo’s support for a murdered Jewish
woman brings him into the sights of the city’s underground resistance. Hooked
and unsettled, Nico can’t stop reading – but he soon wonders if he ever knew
his beloved grandfather at all.
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garden-Angels-David-Hewson/dp/0727850113
https://www.amazon.com/Garden-Angels-David-Hewson/dp/0727850113
Author
Bio –
David Hewson is a former journalist with The Times, The Sunday Times and the Independent. He is the author of more than
twenty-five novels, including his Rome-based Nic Costa series which has been
published in fifteen languages, and his Amsterdam-based series featuring
detective Pieter Vos. He has also written three acclaimed adaptations of the
Danish TV series, The Killing. He
lives near Canterbury in Kent.
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