Name: Miss Garnet’s Angel
Rating: 3.666666666666667 (6 reviews)
ISBN: 9780007364336

Salley Vickers

Salley Vicker’s sensational debut novel, ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’, is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time.

Miss Garnet’s Angel

After the death of her longtime friend Harriet, schoolteacher Julia Garnet takes an apartment in Venice for six months, falls in love for the first time with an art dealer named Carlo, and unravels the ancient story of Tobias and the Angel at her new church. A first novel. Reprint.

Miss Garnet's Angel

Rose Stanley

I wanted to like this more, but found it too gloomy! I did like the dual narrative though, and would have preferred a book solely on the Tobias and the Angel story. I suppose I could just have leafed through the Apocrypha, which I think I might do anyway...

Jana Reetz

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 apartment in Venice. 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.

Miss Garnet’s Angel

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