Michelle Lovric





Michelle Lovric

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Michelle Lovric is a novelist, writer and anthologist.

Her third novel, The Remedy, was long-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. The Remedy is a literary murder-mystery set against the background of the quack medicine industry in the eighteenth century.

Her first novel, Carnevale, is the story of the painter Cecilia Cornaro, described by The Times as the possessor of ‘the most covetable life’ in fiction in 2001.

In Lovric’s second novel, The Floating Book, a chorus of characters relates the perilous beginning of the print industry in Venice. The book explores the translation of raw emotion into saleable merchandise from the points of view of poets, editors, publishers – and their lovers. The Floating Book, a London Arts award winne...more


Average rating: 3.73 · 2,261 ratings · 403 reviews · 77 distinct works · Similar authors
The Book of Human Skin
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 793 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
The Undrowned Child (The Un...
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions
The Floating Book
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
The Remedy
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions
Love Letters: An Anthology ...
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
The Mourning Emporium (The ...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions
Passionate Love Letters: An...
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
Women's Wicked Wit
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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“Family is family,' sighed the gondolier. 'Family is everything,' declared Marta Gasperin, bending to kiss the old man on the cheek, at which he flushed. She added mischievously, 'Family and books, of course.”
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“Family is family," sighed the gondolier.
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