... ahh Venice!

The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen            

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Two seperate times, two women who travel to Venice to discover the art world that exists there.. 

Juliet Browning has been before in 1928 but left hurriedly with her great aunt. She travels there again in 1938 to attend La Accademia di Belle Arti, the Academy of Fine Arts, a life dream. She’s reacquainted with a young man, Leonardo Da Rossi who Juliet had met on her previous visit. When war breaks out Juliet remains in Venice—until she can’t!

Caroline Grant, her great niece, who’d previous to her marriage had studied design, is in the midst of a divorce and child custody questions, all at the time of the Twin Towers attack. From her Great-Aunt Lettie she inherits some money, a box with Caroline’s name on it, containing three old fashioned keys, a ring and necklace and two sketchbooks.

Caroline decides to travel to Venice, to scatter Aunt’s ashes and to see if there’s anyway she can solve the mystery of the keys. I loved the way she uses her Aunt’s sketchbook to follow in her footsteps.

Questions are invoked, questions that open up the past and uncover some startling events that have had long term consequences.

I really enjoyed this dance between times.

A Lake Union ARC via NetGalley