num_pages: 340
description: A new edition of the Booker Prize winner Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novel of romance in post-war Italy, with a new introduction by Julian Barnes. Innocence is set in the 1950s, when Italy was picking up the pieces after the war. Chiara Ridolfi is the guileless daughter of a decrepit Italian family. Barney is her practical English girlfriend, who can sum up a man, she says, in one firm hand-grip. Salvatore is a penniless doctor from the south, who thinks he is proof against politics, social conscience and tenderness. Chiara’s cousin, Cesare, says very little, which gives him time to think…
language: English
title: Innocence
titlecomplete: Innocence
genres: British Literature, Historical, Italy, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 751
places: Tuscany
publisher: Flamingo