![]() after studying Art History at University. I am always drawn to historical fiction especially set in Italy. And Flavia is drawn into a world of desire and jealousy that has devastating consequences. But as white-lead paint rots the flesh below it, so Perugia, and Santa Giuliana, is rotten below the shimmer of wealth and privilege. Flavia becomes her ornatrix, her hairdresser and personal maid. But on the night before her younger sister’s wedding, Flavia does something drastic, something that will draw her into a much wider and stranger world than she could have imagined: the convent of Santa Giuliana, just outside the city walls of Perugia.There she meets Ghostanza, a courtesan turned widow, whose white-lead painted face entrances Flavia, and whose beauty and cruelty are unmatched. Ashamed of the mark, her mother has concealed Flavia’s face behind a veil all her young life. A dyer’s daughter, she grows up in a little house in the woods, far away from prying eyes. ![]() Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (14 July 2016)įlavia was born with a birthmark covering her face, in the shape of a bird in flight.
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