![]() ![]() The pair meet in Russia, where Henri falls in love with Villanelle, deserts the army and, along with a defrocked Irish priest Patrick, they start the two-thousand mile trek back to Venice, that city of dreams and chance, where they will meet their singular destinies. Not figuratively speaking, she quite literally keeps it in a jar. Her passion is for a married woman, who has stolen her heart. Meanwhile in Venice, Villanelle is the flame-haired, cross-dressing, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, who makes her living as a croupier and pickpocket. ![]() ![]() His passion for his leader leads him from war to inevitable war and from glory in France to frozen destitution in Russia.Īh folly, but I think if Bonaparte had asked us to strap on wings and fly to St James’s Palace we would gave set off as confidently as a child lets loose a kite. Henri, is a simple French soldier, whose sole job is to prepare chickens for Napoleon’s dinners each night. The Passion interweaves the stories and destinies of two remarkable characters. The Passion is a short, hypnotic and vibrant novel set against the backdrop of Napoleon’s tumultuous campaigns in Europe and Russia in the early 1800s. ![]()
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