The Garden of Angels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780727850119)

At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943.

A Times Best Thriller Book of 2022

The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice's Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he's waited his whole life to share.

When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and madness . . .

Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining moment of his grandfather's life: when Paolo's support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city's underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can't stop reading - but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all.

Author: David Hewson
ISBN-10: 0727850113
ISBN-13: 9780727850119
Publisher: Severn House
Language: English
Published: 04/06/2021
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/08/2021
Library Journal 03/05/2021 pg. 1
Booklist 05/01/2021 pg. 32