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

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Average rating: 3.72 · 1,417 ratings · 279 reviews · 69 distinct works

	The Book of Human Skin 3.96 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Undrowned Child (The Undrowned Child, #1) 3.68 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Floating Book: A Novel of Venice 3.39 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Remedy 3.13 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion 4.26 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Passionate Love Letters: An Anthology of Desire, with Facsimiles of Rela Letters & Quotations from Lovers' Correspondence Thoughout the Ages 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Mourning Emporium (The Undrowned Child, #2) 3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	How to Insult, Abuse & Insinuate in Classical Latin by Michelle Lovric, Nikiforos Doxiadis Mardas 3.74 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Women's Wicked Wit 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Bleeding Hearts: Love Poems for the Nervous and Highly Strung 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:

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The Undrowned Child (2 books)
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3.71 avg rating — 221 ratings

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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.”
― Michelle Lovric, The Undrowned Child

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“Family is family," sighed the gondolier.
"Family is everything," declared Marta Gasperin”
― Michelle Lovric, The Undrowned Child

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“This is going to be a little uncomfortable”
― Michelle Lovric

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Which book would you like to read for our July 1 - August 1 History group read?

London by Edward Rutherfurd

10 votes, 25.6%

Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd

9 votes, 23.1%

Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott

7 votes, 17.9%

The Floating Book: A Novel of Venice by Michelle Lovric

7 votes, 17.9%

New York by Edward Rutherfurd

3 votes, 7.7%

London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

3 votes, 7.7%

39 total votes

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