I’d expressed my happiness at the coincidence on twitter the week before, and Mary responded in turn to say how happy she was that a reader of her books would be at the meeting. Why am I talking about Venice, when myself and my peers at OICPS have recently visited Bologna for the international rights fair?īecause as an introduction to the event Brookes had arranged by complete coincidence for us to meet the author of Stravaganza! What a dream come true. It made me want to learn Italian so I could revisit the city during my gap year, and eventually live there to study at Ca’ Foscari and Venice International University during my BA Erasmus year. Reading that book whilst on a family holiday captured my imagination and sparked my love of Venice. When I was fourteen I read Mary Hoffman’s Stravaganza: City of Masks, a young adult novel set both in contemporary England and in an alternate Venice 500 years in the past.
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