AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER! (in paperback, ebook, or audio)
Canada – Amazon or Indigo (Kobo for ebook)
USA – Amazon or Barnes & Noble
USA and Canada – Independent booksellers
UK – Amazon
Or anywhere in the world English language books are sold
And here is some amazing praise The Virgins of Venice has thus far received!
“Gina Buonaguro has cracked open the secret lives of nuns living behind stone walls in glorious, oppressive sixteenth-century Venice. Written with colourful conversation and finely researched details of a city threatened by war and floods (even then), the novel shows the bravery of women who dared to fight for the right to free their hearts and their minds.”
—LISA ROCHON, author of Tuscan Daughter
“A gripping, textured, meticulously researched tale of women’s lives in the watery world of early sixteenth-century Venice, a place of beauty but also rigid social stratification. Buonaguro’s writing is rich in character and place. We encounter a vivid array of women from various walks of life who struggle for survival, agency, and love, and who often risk everything to break out of society’s constraints and expectations that define them. Compelling, heart-wrenching. Unputdownable.”
—JEANETTE LYNES, author of The Apothecary’s Garden
“A rich, intricately researched story of two sisters’ loves, losses, and courage, cast against the vividly drawn backdrop of sixteenth-century Venice. I flew through every page!”
Gina Buonaguro 