Christine Mangan wrote Palace Of The Drowned. The story takes place in a palazzo in Venice in 1966. The palazzo is named Palace of the Drowned. Frankie (Francis) goes to stay there when her friend Jack (Jacqueline) offers it to her because no one in her family is using it right now. Frankie is a writer. Her third novel got some good reviews and one bad review. Frankie obsessed over the bad review and this lead to a mental health crisis. She decided to get away from it all and work on her next book in Venice. In Venice she meets a woman, Gilly, in her 20's who claims she met her before. Gilly is vivacious and persuasive and interested in Frankie. Somehow Frankie can't say no to Gilly's plans to get together. A terrible storm with three solid days of heavy rain leads to the worst case of flooding Venice has ever seen. The lives of the two women are tragically altered. The author wrote so vividly about the sights and smells of Venice I could almost smell the canals. This book was transporting and suspenseful.
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