| Susan Ashley Michael |
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- “In Crossing the Bridge of Sighs, Susan Ashley Michael offers vivid characters, an intricate plot,
and a wonderful portrait of the mysterious and romantic city of Venice. I fell in love with the
heroine, Claire, and wanted only the best for her. Michael kept me hanging almost to the last
page to discover exactly what-or should I say who?-that might be.”
Margot Livesey
Author of
Eva Moves The Furniture
- "Susan Ashley Michael captures the allure of Venice with Claire, a brokenhearted, 5-star travel
writer, who crosses her own Bridge of Sighs and finds, like Proust, that her dream has become
her address. Chock full of romance, recipes and pithy proverbs."
Award-winning author Cat Bauer; Venice, Italy
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Claire is a travel writer, in the minimal mould of Anne Tyler's Macon Leary in The
Accidental Tourist, and so she gets around, meets people, looks at art, and generally does
Venice proud for us, not putting a foot wrong in the Venetian detailing, in fact. Recent
bereavement adds more unexpected narrative wrinkles. Cultural references and conversations
abound . . . Hitchcock's Rear Window, the eroticism of discussing John Ruskin, Joseph
Cornell's boxes, and someone fainting in front of a Bellini . . . sealing this as a read that is
romantic but also realistic, and recommended."
Fictional Cities (UK), Jeff Cotton,
Accidental Tourist, and so she gets around, meets people, looks at art, and generally does
Venice proud for us, not putting a foot wrong in the Venetian detailing, in fact. Recent
bereavement adds more unexpected narrative wrinkles. Cultural references and conversations
abound . . . Hitchcock's Rear Window, the eroticism of discussing John Ruskin, Joseph
Cornell's boxes, and someone fainting in front of a Bellini . . . sealing this as a read that is
romantic but also realistic, and recommended."
Fictional Cities (UK), Jeff Cotton,
"When Susan Ashley Michael’s travel-writer heroine, Claire, takes her broken heart to Venice,
she begins a journey whose outcome she can’t imagine. Soon the ghosts of great artists who
worked, loved, and suffered in Venice offer Claire their advice, while very much alive characters
draw her into new experiences of desire, friendship, and betrayal. Deftly erudite, with a dash of
crime and more than a dollop of pleasure, this is a rich confection of a novel."
Lynne Barrett
Author of
Magpies
she begins a journey whose outcome she can’t imagine. Soon the ghosts of great artists who
worked, loved, and suffered in Venice offer Claire their advice, while very much alive characters
draw her into new experiences of desire, friendship, and betrayal. Deftly erudite, with a dash of
crime and more than a dollop of pleasure, this is a rich confection of a novel."
Lynne Barrett
Author of
Magpies
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