by Jill Paton Walsh · Black Swan Book · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552996464
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«A School for Lovers» is the romantic novel by Jill Paton Walsh, published by Black Swan Book in paperback (289 pages, in English).
A reworking of Mozart's Così fan tutte: in a half-restored country mansion, two friends accept a cynical tutor's challenge to seduce each other's partner. While the women restore paintings and the garden, disguises and misunderstandings turn the ideal of love into a murky game.
Jill Paton Walsh was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel Knowledge of Angels.
For readers of contemporary and romantic fiction, especially opera enthusiasts and fans of rewritings of classics such as Così fan tutte.
Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford,, known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and for the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.
