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This novel was one of the first audiobooks I listened to. It was absolutely captivating, it’s such a dramatic, intense love story. And it is a true story, based on a correspondence between a beautiful English-Italian woman, Giustiniana Wynne, and a Venetian nobleman, Andrea Memmo. Researched and assembled by his descendant, their love letters were found partly in the family’s old palazzo on the Grand Canal and in libraries’ collections. Their forbidden love was kept alive through their letters and secret meetings arranged by trusted servants or friends - a stormy relationship of joyful love and nasty jealousy.

What heightened my listening experience, was a recent visit to Venice: I could envision the whole story as it unfolded. The Venetian setting evoked images of a city that hasn’t changed that much in a few centuries… the canals, its bridges and pedestrian or waterway traffic, the mansions along the Grand Canal. Except that in our days, the ruins of a glorious past are sinking into the sea.

Historical characters such as Casanova appear in the story, and it’s interesting that the author found out even more about his ancestor’s love story from Casanova’s own memoirs. The lives of Andrea and Giustiniana are intervowen with Italian and French history, their fates decided on by their heritage.

The narrator, Paul Hecht, does a marvelous job in pulling you into the story. When remembering the story now, it is as if there are several voices narrating the story: I can “hear” Giustiniana’s voice distinct from Memmo’s. This might be attributed to the story’s dramatic character as well as a very well rendered narration!

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