The story is written in the first person in both instances which means the reader gets their unique perspectives. At night she dresses as a man and ventures into the seductive world of the Venice casinos. In the second part, we meet the enigmatic Villanelle who is a Venetian boatman’s daughter. In the first part of the story, we are introduced to Henri, a young man who has left his rural home in France to fight for Napoleon. It is a book made up of four parts and set during the Napoleonic Wars. The Passion doesn’t really lend itself easily to a synopsis but I will try to give you a flavour of what it is about without giving the whole story away. What an absolutely wonderful storyteller. After reading The Castle of Otranto I thought it would have to work hard to be stranger than that!Īnd… The Passion is an unusual book, however having finished it I now want to read everything Jeanette Winterson has ever written. I think this was partly because I had the impression that it would be quite an ‘odd’ book and I wasn’t quite in the mood for odd books until recently. I actually didn’t read it on holiday (I was a little ambitious with choosing five books to read on a long weekend!), and didn’t get round to reading it until recently. Sarah, of A Devoted Reader recommended Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion to me when I was looking for books to read in Venice (you can find my final choices here).
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