Modern Classics: The Passion

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion (1987) by Jeanette Winterson is not an historic novel. It is the product of a great imagination. It is the story of Henri and Villanelle - he from France, she from Venice. We follow their separate lives until they meet in Russia and together walk to Venice. We leave them when Henri is sent to a mental intitution for having killed Villanelle's husband and Villanelle has had Henri's child.

This magical book had me lost in it as one would get lost in the Venice, city of imagination, it describes.

Other books I have read by this author: Sexying The Cherry and Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit.