# Belladonna

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- Book: [Belladonna](https://www.bookquiver.com/anbara-salam/belladonna) ([Belladonna.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anbara-salam/belladonna.md))
- Authors: [Anbara Salam](https://www.bookquiver.com/anbara-salam)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 10 h 35 min
- Narrated by: Jill Winternitz
- ISBN: 978-02-4199-083-4
- Published: 2020-07-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 10 h 35 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin It is summer, 1956, when fifteen-year-old Bridget first meets Isabella. In their conservative Connecticut town, Isabella is a breath of fresh air. She is worldly, alluring and brazen: an enigma. When they receive an offer to study at the Academy in Italy, Bridget is thrilled. This is her ticket to Europe and - better still - a chance to spend nine whole months with her glamorous and unpredictable best friend. There, lodged in a convent of nuns who have taken a vow of silence, the two girls move towards a passionate but fragile intimacy. As the year rolls on, Bridget grows increasingly fearful that she will lose Isabella's affections - and the more desperate she gets, the greater the lengths she will go to keep her. Belladonna is a hypnotizing coming-of age story set against the stunning and evocative backdrop of rural Northern Italy. Anbara Salam tells a story of friendship and obsession, desire and betrayal, and the lies we tell in order to belong. © Anbara Salam 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020