The Garden of Angels - Large Print Edition

By: David Hewson

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Hardcover | 26 August 2021

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Hardcover
480 Pages

Edition Type
Large type / large print

Dimensions(cm)
21.84 x 14.22 x 4.06

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At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943.

A Times Best Thriller Book of 2022

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.

Industry Reviews

Hewson expertly balances tense action and thoughtful emotion. Fans of character-driven WWII thrillers will want to check this out * Publishers Weekly *
The plot is strong, tense and intricate with an unexpected twist in the tail, and the sense of place is haunting and powerful, but the abiding strength is in the characterisation * Historical Novel Society *
Readers will be gripped and hold fast until the shocking end * Publishers Weekly on Devil's Fjord *
Outstanding * Booklist on The Savage Shore *
Readers of Donna Leon and Michael Dibdin will find this gripping * Library Journal on The Flood *

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