Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets we encounter the wolf\-like tread of crime, and assassination for a few sous is all in a days work. We weep with the unlucky and heart\-broken Fantine, and we exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast courage and nobility of soul of ex\-convict Jean Valjean, always in danger from...
In Venice, Frances Croy is working to leave the previous year behind: another novel published to little success, a scathing review she can't quite manage to forget, and, most of all, the real reason behind her self-imposed exile from London: the incident at the Savoy. Sequestered within an aging palazzo, Frankie finds comfort in the emptiness of Venice in winter, in the absence of others. And then Gilly appears.