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St. Martin's Press
December 2015
On Sale: December 8, 2015
Featuring: Beatrice; Benedick
448 pages
ISBN: 1250077133
EAN: 9781250077134
Kindle: B015WA0DIQ
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Hidden in the language of Shakespeare's best-loved comedy
Much Ado
About Nothing are several clues to an intriguing tale. It
seems that the witty
lovers Beatrice and Benedick had a previous love affair that
ended bitterly. But
how did they meet? Why did they part? And what brought them
together
again?
When nineteen-year-old Beatrice is brought to live at her
uncle's court in
Sicily to be a companion to his daughter, she first meets
Benedick, a young
soldier who is there with a Spanish lord on a month-long
sojourn. As they
begin to wage their war of wit, their words mask their deep
love for one
another. But the pair are cruelly parted by misunderstanding
and slander.
Heartbroken, Benedick sails to England on the ill-fated
Spanish Armada.
Beatrice returns to her home in the North and an unwanted
betrothal. While
Benedick must fight for his life on board ship, Beatrice
fights for her freedom
from an arranged marriage. From the point of view of Beatrice and Benedick we hear the
lovers tell their
own story, taking us from the sunlit southern courts of
Sicily, to the crippled
Armada on the frozen northern seas, to the gorgeous
Renaissance cities of the
north. From Marina Fiorato, author of the acclaimed historical
novel The Glassblower
of Murano, comes a beautifully imagined Beatrice and Benedick.
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