The Bay of Noon

Long out of print Shirley Hazzard''s classic novel of love and memoryA young Englishwoman working in Naples Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and so changes her life forever. Through the letter she meets Giocanda a beautiful and gifted writer and Gianni a famous Roman film director and Giocanda''s lover. At work she encounters Justin a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of these three she discovers that the past--and the patterns of a lifetime--are not easily discarded.