{"product_id":"9780230756564","title":"Daughters of the Doge","description":"\u003cp\u003eVenice, 1556: a wealthy, bustling, multi-cultural city, with a standard of living four times that of anywhere else in Europe. Into this exciting world comes twenty-year-old English protestant Richard Stocker, recovering from the execution of his friend Lady Jane Grey (a friendship recounted in Edward Charles’s debut novel \u003ci\u003eIn the Shadow of Lady Jane\u003c\/i\u003e.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Soon Richard finds himself caught up in the complexities of La Serenissima, and involved with three of the city’s most remarkable women: Faustina Contarini, a nun imprisoned in a convent by her noble family; Yasmeen Ahmed, Muslim clerk and book-keeper to the great artist Tintoretto; and Veronica Franco, artists’ model, courtesan and poet. Each has her own story to tell, but they have one thing in common: they are all daughters of the Doge, held captive by the contradictory laws and regulations of this teeming city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This is a thrilling account of a young man’s transformation, as he discovers love, faith and deception in a colourfully evoked Renaissance Venice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111553319152,"sku":"9780230756564","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780230756564_p0.jpg?v=1763676948","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780230756564","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}