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Beatrice and Benedick, 9781848548039
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A bitter past, cruel separation, can love find its way back?

Beatrice and Benedick

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    8 June 2015

Summary

The First Wooing of Beatrice and Benedick

Hidden in the language of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing, are several clues to an intriguing tale. It seems that the witty lovers Beatrice and Benedick had a previous youthful love affair which ended bitterly. But how did they meet, why did they part, and what brought them together again?

Messina, Sicily, 1588. Beatrice of Mantua comes to the court of her uncle Leonato, to be companion to his daughter…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781848548039
ISBN-10:1848548036
Author:Marina Fiorato
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:8 June 2015
Weight:360g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 30mm
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Critics Review

Richly detailed and evocative … an unforgettable historical love story. Beautifully written and worth losing yourself in.

- Candis Magazine

In Marina Fiorato’s beautifully imagined novel, these two witty, fierce characters once again get to take centre stage … Beatrice and Benedick’s is a story that has become legendary, but Marina Fiorato manages nonetheless to breathe new life into it. Not only does she fill out the details of the protagonists’ lives, transforming them into characters with backgrounds, histories and contexts, but she creates meaningful and inventive narratives that inform the play … this book is a real pleasure. - We Love this Book/Bookseller

Captures the scents, passion and vigour of Italy - Books Quarterly

Fiorato creates her own masterpiece - Booklist

About The Author

Marina Fiorato

Marina Fiorato is the author of five novels: The Glassblower of Murano, The Madonna of the Almonds, The Botticelli Secret, Daughter of Siena and The Venetian Contract, and was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists’ Association Historical Fiction Award for Daughter of Siena. Born in Manchester and raised in the Yorkshire Dales, Marina is half Venetian. She is a history graduate of Oxford University and the University of Venice, where she specialized in the study of Shakespeare’s plays as an historical source. After university she studied art and since worked as an illustrator, actress and film reviewer. Marina was married on the Grand Canal and lives in north London with her husband, son and daughter.

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