Publisher's Synopsis
Lucien is in bed seriously ill with cancer. So how can hesimultaneously exist in full health in a strange city that looks oddlylike Venice - and yet couldn't be more different? Lucien has arrived inBellezza, ruled by the powerful Duchessa, but it is his method oftravel that marks Lucien out. Through an innocent gift of a Venetiannotebook, Lucien has become a member of the Stravaganti, travellers intime and place. He has entered a world thick with drama, colour,intrigue and danger for which he is ill-prepared.
