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An eerie, Venice-set novel from the bestselling Booker Prize-winning author.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW
Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . .
1899. As the new century approaches, English hack-writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat. But in the midst of a mysterious rift between Laura and her father, Evelyn's plans of a substantial inheritance are thrown into doubt.
As the unhappy newlyweds travel to Venice at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo - a series of seemingly otherworldly occurrences exacerbate Evelyn's already frayed nerves: is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city or is he losing his mind?
Author: John Banville
Paperback Published 30 September 2025 365 pages
'A marvellous and rewarding novelist . . . He is a magician, really.'THE SCOTSMAN
'Banville has a grim gift of seeing people's souls.' DON DeLILLO