- Mass Market Paperback: 328 pages
- Publisher: Berkley Trade Pub (6 Feb 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0425214192
- ISBN-13: 978-0425214190
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.9 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,314,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bittersweet tale..., 2 Nov 2007
By Deborah Wiley - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Lost Madonna (Mass Market Paperback)
Professor Suzanne Cunningham hasn't returned to Italy since the flood of 1966. She is thrilled when an old friend offers her the opportunity to teach art history in Florence, and begins preparing for the courses she will teach. Much to her surprise, she finds a reference to a painting she helped restore after the flood, a painting that is now listed as lost in that very same flood. Suzanne will have to travel back into her past memories to a time when her love for art restorer Stefano Leonetti inspired her current love of art itself. Suzanne will have to face her past in order to move on with her future....
THE LOST MADONNA is really two tales in one. First, it is the slow unwinding of what really happened on Suzanne's first journey to Italy as a young nineteen year old. Her experiences as a "mud angel", rescuing art during the flood, are just as important as her affair and love for Stefano at that time. Suzanne has lived a life shadowed by the events of her past and it is only now, as a middle aged woman, that she is venturing back to face what transpired. The second portion of the tale, interwoven with the revelations of past events, is Suzanne's journey back to love. Never has Suzanne loved another since Stefano, but Dr. Roberto Balducci touches something deep inside of Suzanne. Can she learn to love again?
THE LOST MADONNA is a compelling although sometimes meandering tale. There were moments when I was frustrated by the story's slow pace and yet Kelly Jones steadily drew me into the storyline so that I had to know how it would all end. Perhaps the most intriguing aspects were the glimpses, both past and present, which the author gave of Italy. The city of Florence is almost a character itself and Kelly Jones brings it to vivid life through her beautiful descriptions. THE LOST MADONNA is a bittersweet tale that will leave the reader with mixed emotions as the story concludes.
COURTESY OF CK2S KWIPS AND KRITIQUES
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Mature, Intelligent Romance, 10 Oct 2010
By Margaret J. Ashworth "Liber Amatrix" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Lost Madonna (Kindle Edition)
As a mature reader I gave up on romance novels many years ago, but after reading Kelly Jones' The Lost Madonna, I realize that affairs of the heart can still be interesting, especially when the story is both mysterious and intellectual. Finally, here is a romance/mystery that eschews bodice-ripping but embraces complex emotions, all while enlightening the reader with the fascinating details of Italian Renaissance Art. (I love learning something new while being entertained.) The characters are engaging and believable, and the plot hums along at a good pace. But Jones is not only a good story-teller, she is also a good story-ender. The conclusions of both The Lost Madonna and her her first novel, The Seventh Unicorn, are both unusually satisfying, a rare occurrence in many contemporary novels.
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a totally wonderful story, 3 July 2009
By Stephanie Cowell - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Lost Madonna (Mass Market Paperback)
This is one of the novels I love best; I have read it three or four times. The plot, the setting and the characters are vibrant, touching and altogether first rate. I am a novelist myself ("Marrying Mozart" from Viking Penguin and a new one on Claude Monet coming soon from Crown) and the novels I want to fall into again and again are a great treasure to me.
I love the novel's world of Florence 30 years ago during the flood where the heroine was one of the "mud angels" who help rescue the deluged art and her current return there as an art professor. She returns full of memories of a love affair with a young married Italian art restorer and of a small, precious Renaissance painting which she helped restore long ago and which has been reported missing. Her American marriage has ended and to her great sorrow, she is childless. Possible love enters her life in the form of a widowed doctor who is partially crippled with polio. Though she is drawn to this kind though touchy man, she is also compelled to find out why both her former lover and the little painting of the Madonna have disappeared and goes in search of both.
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