By the Grand Canal

At the end of the First World War, a British diplomat returns to his second home in Venice, full of foreboding about the long term prospects for peace.

He finds solace in the arms of an opera singer and with his old friends, the Veniers, unaware of the shadow lying over the family and their once grand palace. Yet in death there is life and a new generation offers hope in this moving, thought-provoking novel about the crises of empires and innocent – as well as not so innocent – love.