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A tour de force, The Birth of Venus is the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense, bringing to life the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, and telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.

“Dunant has created a vivid and compellingly believable picture of Renaissance Florence: the squalor and brutality; the confidence and vitality; the political machinations.  Her research has obviously been meticulous.  A magnificent novel.” -- The Telegraph