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The Bay of Noon

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Originally published
  
1970

Genre
  
Fiction

3.8/5
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Author
  
Shirley Hazzard

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Nominations
  
Lost Man Booker Prize, National Book Award for Fiction

Similar
  
Shirley Hazzard books, Fiction books

The Bay of Noon is a 1970 novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.

Synopsis

A young Englishwoman, Jenny, is working in Naples some years after World War II. Alone in the ruined city, she follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance, through which she meets Gioconda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and her lover Gianni, a noted Roman film director. Meanwhile at work she meets Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As Jenny becomes increasingly drawn in to the lives of the three, she discovers that the past is not easily forgotten.

References

The Bay of Noon Wikipedia