Histfic set in Venice-Charlotte Betts

Submitted: 11th July 2023

If you are on the look out for a very immersive and fascinating read that you can literarlly sink into – Charlotte Betts is the author you need.

This writer has written some of my favourite novels – locations so vivid and real that I honestly feel as if I have been there. She PAINTS scenes with words, it’s quite something.

And now – she has a new novel out – I am going back (in time) to VENICE? You coming along for the ride?

BookTrail Travel to The Lost Daughter of Venice

Boarding Pass Information: Venice

Author guide: Charlotte Betts

Genre: historical fiction

Food and drink to accompany: wine and pasta

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BookTrail Travel to The Lost Daughter of Venice

Charlotte Betts is an author I really feel deserves to be more high-profle and more ‘everyone is reading her’ as she has a very unique skill. She can write, boy can she write, but she transports with her pen like no other. She paints scenes with her paintbrush and then transports the reader even further with the words swirling on the page.

Take this novel – we head to Venice but you honestly get to go back in time to Venice, to the palazzos and ride a gondola. You smell the canals, eat the food and sit next to the characters. This novel was one of the most visual of hers I have read and that is some feat. It played in my mind like a film and I was IMMERSED in every way.

The story of a girl returning to Venice after many years away was both poignant and raw. Phoebe answers a plea to return, only to find that her estranged aunt, a Contessa no less, has left her a Palazzo. She attempts to sell it but then discovers her new home is a pandora’s box of deep, dark family secrets.

Phoebe’s story – her relationships with her family – is very moving and poignant. The story flips to when we meet her leaving Venice in the first place and then, years later when she returns. The style of the novel really fitted and enhanced the plot and it made for a very exciting and well-paced read.

There is so much to enjoy here – a mystery, complex characters and a look at the relationships a girl can have with her family. For me, the scene setting stole the show but all together, the final picture is really one that deserves to light up the big screen.