Belladonna

Name: Belladonna
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780241986745
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By Anbara Salam

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Summary

In Belladonna by Anbara Salam, best friends Bella and Isabel embark on a transformative journey when they enrol in an Italian university in 1957. This richly atmospheric novel weaves themes of friendship, identity, and cultural exploration as the two friends navigate a world filled with art, love, and secrets, ultimately challenging their perceptions and lives.
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Belladonna

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A coming-of-age novel about love and obsession, set in a silent convent in 1950s Italy.

Isabella is worldly, alluring and brazen. Everything that Bridget is not. So when they both receive an offer to study at a silent convent in Northern Italy, Bridget is thrilled. This is her ticket away from Connecticut and a chance to spend nine whole months with her glamorous and unpredictable best friend.

But as the year rolls on in decadent isolation, Bridget grows increasingly fearful that she will lose Isabella's affections—and the more desperate she gets, the greater the lengths she will go to keep her.

Belladonna is a hypnotizing, sun-drenched coming-of-age story of friendship and obsession, desire and betrayal, and the lies we tell in order to belong.

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Belladonna by Anbara Salam is celebrated for its lush and vivid prose, evoking a sensual, absorbing atmosphere reminiscent of The Talented Mr Ripley. Reviewers praise its exploration of young love, obsession, race, and the desire to belong. The novel's portrayal of fractured friendships and adolescent experiences is considered both emotionally rich and captivating, with acute sensitivity and insight into complex themes like jealousy and betrayal.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241986745

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 July 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 247g

Pages: 352

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Anbara Salam Contemporary Romance Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Romance

About the Author

Anbara Salam is half-Palestinian and half-Scottish, and grew up in London. She has a PhD in Theology and is now living and working in Oxford. She spent six months living on a small South Pacific island, and her experiences there served as the inspiration for her first novel, Things Bright and Beautiful.

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