Paradis Inferno
by Wendy WatersPublish: Aug 10, 2022Series: SeriesLiterary FictionBook Overview
In this long-awaited sequel to Catch the Moon, Mary we meet Mary Ferranti nee Granger thirty years after we left her on a vineyard in the hills above Florence. Her meddlesome mentor and lover, the angel Gabriel, has murdered again and Mary has withdrawn the music that fuelled his ambition to enlighten the world by force. The lid of her piano is as firmly closed as her heart, and she is resolute that she will never play again. However, the one chink in her armour is her angel son, Rigel, now happily married to Samantha Tanner, the granddaughter of Grace Fielders whom we met in Fields of Grace.Determined to fulfill Sam’s grandparents’ dream of bringing theatre to the masses at affordable prices utilising ancient Roman and Greek Amphitheatres, Rigel persuades his mother to headline the first concert he and Sam have organised in an ancient Amphitheatre on the cliffs above the sea near Sangatte, France.
The sky is burning with stars and the fragrance of roses fills the air the night Mary Ferranti, swathed in red silk, sits down to play for the first time in twenty years.
When she was a child her melodies summoned the angel Gabriel who wanted her music.
This time she sirens the devil who wants her soul.
Paradis Inferno is experiencing the ethereal that captures our collective clamour for meaning in life. Readers share Stanas’ aching for his soul that can only find harmony in music and nature. Paradis is a mellifluous culmination of Wendy’s two earlier novels, Catch the Moon, Mary and Fields of Grace and a compelling read. - Asha G Kumar, author of It Must've Been Love, but...
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