To order my debut literary novel, and read an excerpt, see : Never a Cloud
“Heartfelt, entertaining, and hauntingly beautiful, a must-read.”—Pacific Book Review (starred review)
“The novel often feels like the film Gosford Park populated by readers of the London Review of Books... Brunini’s prose is often evocative...”—Kirkus Reviews
"Reading Never a Cloud is akin to navigating a dream in which all the main characters are familiars who become less and less solid the more we learn about them. And isn't that just like life? As a painter, Jo Brunini understands complexity and color and the elusive and mercurial nature of reality and how essential light is for revelation. Every family is burdened by the weight of the lies told by those who deem the truth too difficult a burden to bear. And Violet, our trusty narrator, ushers us in and out of time as she gently and deliberately drops bread crumbs—and all of us— home to ourselves." —Molly Secours, author of White Privilege Pop Quiz
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Some things can only be hidden for so long. Some things are too difficult to talk about, and some things you have to repeat even when no one is listening . . .
Never a Cloud charts the course of three women—Violet, Ava, and Margot— who find their way to a new understanding of home and family at Otyrburn, an estate in rural Scotland. Violet Grey, a child of the sixties, writes from an island in Maine as the novel travels between Scotland, New York City, and Venice, Italy. Otyrburn belongs to George Lowell and Margot Reid, who is the half sister of Violet’s daughter, Ava. This is something Margot discovers only when Ava unexpectedly arrives. George, a director at the Metropolitan Museum, finds himself under suspicion for illicit activity as Margot reconnects with her childhood sweetheart, who is helping restore the worn-at-the-edges Regency manor, where secrets long forgotten, and those newly discovered, converge.
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