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Titian’s Boatman, by Victoria Blake

09 Thursday Mar 2017

Posted by la Clarina in Books

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historical novel, multi-period novel, Titian, Titian's Boatman, Victoria Blake

I remember reading once that George Eliot wanted everything in Daniel Deronda “to be connected to everything else”.

Well, this is exactly what Titian’s Boatman feels like.

It may not look like it at first, when the reader is introduced to several characters in various places and various times. There is the eponymous boatman, plying his trade in a plague-ridden Venice in 1576, ferrying back and forth Titian’s last surviving son and plucky courtesan Tullia Buffo. Then, in present day London, there are actor Terry Jardine and Italian director Ludovico Zabarella, brought together by Shakespeare and personal loss. Lastly, there’s Cuban maid Aurora, carrying the weight of childhood trauma and widowhood – and finding consolation in a painting… Continue reading →

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Not quite in Dulwich

24 Tuesday Jan 2017

Posted by la Clarina in Books, Things

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Dulwich Picture Gallery, Edward Alleyn, Flu, Victoria Blake

tbvbYou know, I should be in London right now… and I am not.

Tomorrow my friend Victoria Blake launches her new historical novel, Titian’s Boatman, and I should have been there… but the deities of the flu decided otherwise, and I’m moping at home instead, and whining to anyone within earshot that I should be in London, London, London… Continue reading →

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