To order my novel, and read an excerpt, see : Never a Cloud
Praise for Never a Cloud:
“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
"Could Never a Cloud not be like a house, or at least a large room, or theater scene, with lots of doors, open and closed, hiding thrilling secrets, bringing light and shadow to our most precious and unpredictable mystery: life."
—Pierre Bergian, fine artist
“Heartfelt, entertaining, and hauntingly beautiful, a must-read."
—Pacific Book Review (starred review)
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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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