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Love from Venice: A Golden Summer on the Grand Canal

Love from Venice: A Golden Summer on the Grand Canal

Johnson, Gill

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ISBN10: 1399721658
ISBN13: 9781399721653
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: May 28 2024
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.34 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
In the summer of 1957, rebelling against her family and anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching English to an aristocratic Italian family.

Love from Venice is her vivid evocation of that summer, the last hurrah of the European Grand Tour, when the international jet set lit upon the city for their fun. Drawing on letters that she wrote to David Ross, her admirer and correspondent, and to her parents in London, Johnson describes her life as she flits from palazzo to Lido to palazzo. Absorbed into the social whirl of the super-rich, how do her feelings for her love begin to change?

This is a moving and witty memoir of a young woman coming to terms with her own feelings and destiny, and learning about different aspects of love from the people she meets, all set in high-season Venice in a halcyon age.

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