PARALLEL LIVES HB

This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward.

Iain Pears is the author of the bestsellers An Instance of the Fingerpost,The Dream of Scipio, Stone's Fall, and Arcadia,and a novella, The Portrait, as well as a series of acclaimed detective novels, a book of art history, and countless articles on artistic, financial and historical subjects. He lives in Oxford, England.