Maddalena and the dark
A novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by a dangerous wager. Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della PietÆa, she hopes to join the highest ranks of its illus...
| Main Author: | Fine, Julia (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Flatiron Books,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
A novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by a dangerous wager. Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. As a student at the Ospedale della PietÆa, she hopes to join the highest ranks of its illustrious girls’ orchestra and become a protĐegĐe of the great Antonio Vivaldi. Luisa is good at violin, but she is not the best. She has peers, but she does not have friends. Until Maddalena. After a scandal threatens her noble family’s reputation, Maddalena is sent to the PietÆa to preserve her marriage prospects. When she meets Luisa, Maddalena feels the stirrings of a friendship unlike anything she has known. But Maddalena has a secret: she has hatched a dangerous plot to rescue her future her own way. When she invites Luisa into her plans, promising to make her dreams come true, Luisa doesn’t hesitate. But every wager has its price, and as the girls are drawn into the decadent world outside the PietÆa’s walls, they must decide what it is they truly want—and what they will do to pay for it. Lush and heady, swirling with music and magic, Maddalena and the Dark is a Venetian fairytale about the friendship between two girls and the boundless desire that will set them free, if it doesn’t consume them first. |
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| Physical Description: |
304 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781250867872 1250867878 |
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