'Facinating and Moving' Sunday Times
Venice, 1568 Jessica is sixteen - and trapped. She's tired of the endless rules of the Jewish Ghetto. Tired of her father Shylock's meanness. Now she wants to be free.
Lorenzo is everything Jessica ever wanted - handsome, charming, aristoratic and flattering. Jessica can't help but fall in love. After all, Lorenzo is surely her way into a wonderful new life.
But Lorenzo is a Christian and Jessica is a Jew. And the price of freedom can be desperately high...
'Extraordinarily powerful.' Literary Review
'An eye-opening and empathetic novel, with resonancesfor any society where racism exists and cultures clash. Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times
- ISBN10 0330484109
- ISBN13 9780330484107
- Publish Date 12 January 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 June 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 272
- Language English