by Katie Hickman · Garzanti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788811681465
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«Il giardino delle favorite» is Katie Hickman's historical novel, published by Garzanti in paperback (407 pages, in Italian).
In 2007 Oxford, Elizabeth Staveley discovers a four-hundred-year-old parchment fragment inside an old astronomy book. The find leads to 1599 Constantinople, where English merchant Paul Pindar arrives on a diplomatic mission to deliver a musical clock to the sultan. Amid negotiations and the secrets of the harem, a voice from the past demands to be heard.
The original novel, The Aviary Gate, was published in 2008; it is the first installment of the eponymous series. The Italian edition is translated by Sara Caraffini.
For readers of historical fiction and intrigue set in the Ottoman Empire, with plots of mystery, romance and harem secrets.
Katie Hickman is an English novelist, historian and travel writer. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand to the diplomat and author John Kyrle Hickman and Jennifer Olive (Love) Hickman. She is the author of ten books, including two best-selling history books, which between them have sold more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide. Her travel book A Trip to the Light Fantastic was one of The Independent's Books of the Year (1993) and was short-listed for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (1994). Her fiction works have earned a nomination for the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award and her trilogy of historical novels The Aviary Gate (2008), The Pindar Diamond (2011) and The House at Bishopsgate (2016) have been translated into 20 languages. She is featured in the Oxford University Press guide to women travellers, Wayward Women.
