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Summary: Leaves you feeling good
Review: A delightful page turner set in a beautiful place. Good writing that reads well. Perhaps a bit far out in believability at a few points in the story, but endearing tale, most enjoyable characters and well worth the time to read.
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Summary: Leaves you feeling good
Review: A delightful page turner set in a beautiful place. Good writing that reads well. Perhaps a bit far out in believability at a few points in the story, but endearing tale, most enjoyable characters and well worth the time to read.
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Summary: A delightful little book
Review: A really charming and very well-written novel; I was very much surprised at how good it was, and I actually shed a tear or two at the end.
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Summary: A review of this book made it sound quite interesting.
Review: And, though reviews can sometimes lead you astray, this book is a marvelous read! I enjoyed it from beginning to end. To see how far Julia Garnet travels, and how much she learns during this story, moved me. And the changes move along slowly. You aren't battered with them. The reader sees Miss Garnet trying to work things through, so that she can move forward as she needs to. A wonderful character.
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Summary: magic of venice and raphael
Review: be transported, it's forceful beauty will make your heart sing.... an intensity and search for knowledge of art, tobit, raphael, and even the bible and it's stories... plus love without all the gooey romance.... buy it..
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Summary: - beautiful and seductive
Review: English lit. has a tradition of middle-aged spinsters- or widows, striking out and getting a life. The fact that this lady is quite explicitly a 'Miss' fits into the visionary aspect of the story. - The parallel between the modern Sarah and Tobias- is rather too explicit- but there is a myriad of symbolism beside these two stories= food, high and low levels, closed spaces, animals, wealth and poverty- The angel imagery is subtle and moving. makes you want to take a closer look around you.
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Summary: A Gem for a Book Group
Review: Having read "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" immediately upon its release, I was intrigued that Sally Vicker's first book was Tracy Chevlier's favorite. Indeed this is a British gem and will offer a book group a good deal of discussion. If you are interested in Venice or excited about having been there, you will love the story as you weave through the canals, famous cathedrals, and the relationships that unfold for Julia. Most importantly, if you know nothing about the Book of Tobit you will come away wanting to know more and truly believing in the angels that surround us.
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Summary: Best thing I have read sinceThe Alchemist
Review: I absolutely loved this book. A moving and inspiring novel about how its never to late to change your life. Very very beautiful.
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Summary: A real find
Review: I picked this book up on a whim while visiting London earlier this summer. Like many other such purchases, I found a small treasure - a visit to a place I could not have expected. This is made even more interesting by another trip to Europe last month - to Italy, in fact. I just wish now I had found the time to visit Venice. But with the experience of reading this book, I can now look forward to the next trip - and this time it will include Venice.But more than just the ambience of Venice, this book using a device which I found reminiscent of A. S. Byatt's "Possession" with the juxtaposition of two narrative strands in very different historical contexts came together to produce a truly lovely and satisfying novel. Try this! You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Raphael, the angel and Miss Julia, the teacher
Review: I read this novel with the Book of Tobit in my Oxford Bible beside me. The other novel that I'd done this with was On the Road with the Archangel by Frederick Buechner. I'd suggest that to readers also. Miss Julia's Angel was well written but not nearly as well done as Possession which several reviewers have compared it to. I found some of the parts about Tobe and Sarah to be confusing and not much in line with the Aprocrophal book. And their wedding really didn't make sense to me. I read the novel in one day so I really did enjoy it.
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