JULIET: PREVIEW AND GIVEAWAY
JULIETBY ANNE FORTIERABOUT THE BOOK:Twenty-five-year-old Julie Jacobs is sad over a death of her dear aunt Rose. But a shock goes even deeper when she learns which a lady who has been similar to a mom to her has left her entire estate to Julies twin sister. The usually thing Julie receives is a keyone carried by her mom upon a day she herself diedto a safety-deposit box in Siena, Italy.This pass sends Julie upon a journey which will change her hold up forevera journey in to a troubled past of her forerunner Giulietta Tolomei. In 1340, still reeling from a slaughter of her parents, Giulietta was smuggled in to Siena, where she met a immature man named Romeo. Their luckless adore turned Gothic Siena upside-down as good as went upon to inspire generations of poets as good as artists, a story reaching its pinnacle in Shakespeares famous tragedy.
But 6 centuries have a approach of throwing up to a present, as good as Julie progressively starts to discover which here, in this very old city, a past as good as benefaction have been hard to tell apart. The deeper she delves in to a story of Romeo as good as Giulietta, as good as a closer she gets to a treasure they allegedly left behind, a larger a risk surrounding hersuperstitions, very old hostilities, as good as personal vendettas. As Julie crosses paths with a descendants of a family groups involved in a memorable red blood feud, she starts to fear which a notorious curseA disease upon both your houses!is still at work, as good as which she is unfailing to be its subsequent target. Only someone similar to Romeo, it seems, could save her from this dreaded fate, though his story ended prolonged ago. Or did it?
From Anne Fortier ! comes a sweeping, beautifully created novel of amour as good as identity, of adore as good as legacy, as a immature lady discovers which her own predestine is irrevocably tiedfor improved or worseto literatures greatest unhappy lovers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Anne Fortier grew up in Denmark as good as emigrated to a United States in 2002 to work in film. She co-produced a Emmy-winning documentary Fire as good as Ice: The Winter War of Finland as good as Russia as good as binds a Ph.D. in a story of ideas from Aarhus University, Denmark. The story of Juliet was desirous by Anne Fortiers mother, who always considered Verona her true home . . . until she detected Siena.PRAISE FOR JULIET:"Anne Fortier delivers a rollicking quest by a dim alleyways as good as shimmering hill towns which once desirous Shakespeare's good adore story. This book has everything: Juliet as good as Romeo; a Italian nobility as good as a mafia underworld; swashbuckling heroes as good as spunky heroines; tip documents as good as hidden treasures; passionate loves as good as aroused vendettas which span a centuries. Juliet is a thrilling debut novel, completely jam-packed in erotically appealing history."Katherine Neville, writer of The Fire
"This book is a stunner. Elegantly created in exquisite, colourful as good as witty poetry which rides good with a clever use of quotes from Shakespeare, it interweaves an startling ancestral take upon a tale of a unhappy lovers with a fast-paced, complicated thriller. Every sentence is a joy, each impression lives, as good as Gothic as good as complicated Siena have been brilliantly evoked. The theme is delightfully original - as good as a kind of thing we instruct we had suspicion up yourself. The writer is to be congratulated upon a truly fabulous book which will surely be a resounding success! We will never see Romeo as good as Julie! t in qui te a same approach again..."Alison Weir
"Spinning backward as good as brazen from Shakespeare's immortal play, Anne Fortier puts to delicious use all a informed Romantic motifs alternating with complex contemporary amour to wobble a multi-layered fine cloth of stories inside of stories, where fortunes spin in an benefaction as good as each impression is a shape shifter. Boldly imagined, brilliantly plotted, beautifully described, Juliet will lift we mesmerised until a retaining end. An startling achievement."Susan Vreeland, writer of Girl in Hyacinth Blue as good as Luncheon of a Boating Party
"In her debut novel, Anne Fortier takes a good ideaa immature womandiscovers she is a successor of a Juliet who desirous Shakespeare's playand executes it thrillingly. JulietLeonardos Swans as good as Stealing Athena
"A feast of myth, history, as good as delicious indulgencesI was swept away, blown away, as good as taken for ransom. Anne Fortier breathes new hold up in to a Shakespearean tragedy we suspicion we knew. we fell in adore with Juliet all over again"Jaime Ford, writer of Hotel upon a Corner of Bitter as good as Sweet
"Ingenious, intriguing, a thrilling story which keeps we branch a pages. This is a splendidly textured novel of story as good as aptitude which brings Italy, past as good as present, beautifully to life." Kate Mosse, writer of Labyrinth as good as Sepulchre
One of those singular novels which have it all. . . we was swept away.Sara Gruen, writer of Water for Elephants GIVEAWAY
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