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THE VENETIAN HOUSE

Book Review by: lempicka     

Original Author: MARY NICKSON
This abstract was translated from LA CASA VENECIANA
Victoria is a young woman who lives a quiet life among her husband Richard and their little son. She has spent most of her
lige in the little greek island of Cofú, where still lives her grandmother and where she enjoyed the best summers of her life with her cousin Guy and his friend richard, who later would become her husband fulfilling this way a great childhood dream: that none would ever break that great friendship and the complicity between the three of them. Richard´s sudden death in a suppousdly hunting accident, breaks Victoria´s heart, when she finds out that it could have been a suicide. Victoria turns to Guy seeking for support without suspecting the infamous secret that this one´s about to reval her: the homosexual relationship between the two of them since many years, and Richard desperation when he found out that Guy was about to marry Francine, ending this way the relationship between them. Victoria feels betrayed , and unable to understand how her husband was capable of this, leaving her alone with their son. Victoria decides to seek refugee at Corfu, at her grandmother´s venetian house, a house that was the object of interest of an editorial house that wanted to publish a bok of mansions with history. She ´ll try to regain peace and confidence at Corfu, next to a writer called Patrick , and fell in love. At the same time, she descovers an ancient relationship of hr grandmother and a man that was her true love during her youth.
Published: January 14, 2006

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