Retro Reads

The Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant

This was a Vanaheim Book Club selection.  I was in need of a book to get me interested after getting stuck in Anna Karenina.  I loved this book.

The plot: Alessandra Cecchi grows up in the Florentine Renaissance and is married off to her brother's lover.  She has an affair with her painter and ends up in a convent. 

Thrilling turn of events that I did not expect.