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A Book of Secrets

A Book of Secrets

Author(s): Michael Holroyd

Location(s): Amalfi Coast

Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical

Era(s): Early 1900s

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Set high above Ravello on the Amalfi Coast is the Villa Cimbrone, and is the unifying anchor for a cast of characters who in fact never meet. Empathic prose captures their lives, the author focusses on some of the well known women, nevertheless on the margin of society, who pass through the Villa’s doors.

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The point of reference in this subtle paean to the art of biography is a sun-drenched villa on the Amalfi coast, renovated in the early 1900s by Lord Grimthorpe, who hoped to make it...

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