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The Garden of Angels

Author:
David Hewson
Read by:
Richard Armitage
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Book
15
Narrator
4
Release Date
January 28, 2021
Duration
13 hours 22 minutes
Summary
At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943.

The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice's Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he's waited his whole life to share.

When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and madness...Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining moment of his grandfather's life: when Paolo's support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city's underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can't stop reading - but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all.

'Gripping and powerful, THE GARDEN OF ANGELS richly evokes the tension and threat of Nazi-occupied Venice. A moving and important novel.” TESS GERRITSEN, author of The Shape of Night

'Vivid and compelling. A richly wrought thriller, a love story and a warning that spans decades. I was thinking about this book for days.' SARAH PINBOROUGH, author of Behind Her Eyes
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Profile Avatar Nicky T. Jan 2024

Excellent story. Horrifying but worth it.

Profile Avatar Marie P. Feb 2024

Love historical fiction and loved the characters Excellent

Profile Avatar Natalija J. Feb 2021

The Garden of Angels is an amazing book, with most unexpected twist at the end. Richard Armitage's mysterious woice and wonderful performance are perfect for this book.

The Garden of Angels

The Garden of Angels

Author: David Hewson
Read by: Richard Armitage
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