This is a book that is written for children and the main character is a girl called Theodora who comes to Venice
with her parents and her subsquent adventures with friend Rezo. The author has cleverly used Venetian legends with notorious people who actually lived in the 15th century.
This is fantasy writing at its best with sea monsters in the deep, ghosts and ghouls in churchyards and narrow passages. My favourites are the beautiful mermaids and their sailors lingo - 'My gils was atwitch,I might have knowed it. Human children smell most peculiar I do declare freely'.
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