Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from court by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. She is comforted by an old nun, Sceur Seraphina, who tells her the tale of a young girl who, a hundred years earlier, is sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens...
After Margherita's father steals a handful of greens - parsley, wintercress and rapunzel - from the walled garden of the courtesan, Selena Leonelli, they give up their daughter to save him from having both hands cut off.
Selena is the famous red-haired muse of the artist Tiziano, first painted by him in 1513 and still inspiring him at the time of his death, sixty-one years later. Called La Strega Bella, Selena is at the centre of Renaissance life in Venice, a world of beauty and danger, seduction and betrayal, love and superstition.
Locked away in a tower, growing to womanhood, Margherita sings in the hope someone will hear her. One day, a young man does...
Three women, three lives, three stories, braided together to create a compelling story of desire, obsession, black magic, and the redemptive power of love.
Detailed product information
Sku Code
BIGW_8271190
? Product Height (cm)
23.2
? Product Length (cm)
4.3
? Product Weight (KG)
0.72
? Product Width (cm)
15.8
? Age Rating
G
? Author
Kate Forsyth
? Country Of Origin
Australia
? Format
Paperback
? Genre
Fiction
? Number of Pages
564
? Published
20/03/2012
? Publisher
Random House Australia
? Delivery Type
Small Items
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