In the Company of the Courtesan - Sarah Dunant

19th April 2007 with 3 Comments

By the time she began this, her eighth novel, Sarah Dunant had certainly learned how to open an extended narrative:
My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting colour into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in [...]

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