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The house of the sea:

The internationally bestselling author of The French Gardener presents a complex and irresistibly compelling novel that confirms theremarkable power of love to heal and transform. 
Ten year old Floriana is captivated by the beauty of the magnificent Tuscan villa that overlooks the sea justoutside her small village.  She likes to spy from the crumbling wall into the gardens and imagine that one day she’ll escape her meagre existence and live theresurrounded by such otherworldly splendour.  Then, one day, Dante, the son of the villa’s powerful industrialist owner invites her inside.  He shows her the enchantingMermaid Garden and from that moment on Floriana knows that the only destiny for her is there, in that garden, with him.  But as they grow up they cross an unseenline, jeopardising the very thing they hold most dear.
Decades later and hundreds of miles away, a beautiful old country house hotel on England’s Devon coast hasfallen on hard times after the financial crash of 2008.  Its owner, Marina, advertises for an artist-in-residence to stay the summer and teach the guests how topaint.  The man she hires is charismatic and wise and soon begins to pacify the discord in her family and transform the fortunes of the hotel.  However, he is notwho he seems.  He has his own agenda.  Is it to destroy, to seduce, or to heal? Whichever, it is certain to affect them all.
Spanning four decades and sweepingfrom the Italian countryside to the English coast, this new story by Santa Montefiore is a moving and mysterious tale of love, forgiveness and the past revealed.