Palace of the Drowned

In her taut and mesmerizing follow up to Tangerine, the preternaturally gifted Christine Mangan plunges us into another exotic and bewitchingly rendered locale, this time Venice off-season, moody and damp, where well-known novelist Frankie Croy has gone to escape dark memories. Instead, a surprise entanglement with a mysterious young woman sets Frankie on edge, threatening to unravel her already precarious mental state. Voluptuously atmospheric and surefooted at every turn, Palace of the Drowned more than delivers on the promise of Mangan’s debut, and firmly establishes her as a writer of consequence – Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark
A malice-infused mystery. When you learn the truth at the end, you’ll want to go back and rethink everything you read before * New York Times *
Venice in winter - all dank, smelly canals and swirling fog. Lovely stuff. A boisterously melodramatic climax * The Times *
A delightfully seductive dance of yearning and suspicion, where the old is always on notice that it must at some point make way for the new. * i newspaper *

Christine Mangan has her PhD in English from University College Dublin, where her thesis focused on 18th-century Gothic literature, and an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Southern Maine. Her first novel, Tangerine, was an international bestseller and is soon to be a major motion picture starring Scarlett Johansson.

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