Wandering Through Life
  • Published: 19 November 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804943588
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99

Wandering Through Life

A Memoir

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19 Nov 2024
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19 Sep 2023
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21 Sep 2023
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21 Oct 2023
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The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade

‘A delightful companion in life and on the page’ The Times

‘Donna Leon has created a beautifully crafted looking glass into her world’ TLS

From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her grandfather's farm and its beloved animals and summers spent selling homegrown tomatoes by the roadside, Leon has long been open to adventure. After teaching stints in Iran, China and Saudi Arabia, she finally landed in Venice. Leon vividly animates her decades-long love affair with Italy, from her first magical dinner when serving as a "chaperone" to a friend, to the hunt for the perfect cappuccino, to the warfare tactics of grandmothers doing their grocery shopping at the Rialto Market.

Complete with a brief letter dissuading those hoping to meet Guido Brunetti at the Questura, and always suffused with music, food, and her fierce sense of humor, Wandering Through Life offers Donna Leon at her most personal.

‘As the author reaches her 9th decade [this makes] for a fascinating insight into her life and world, albeit with discretion and leaving tantalising hints at what lies beyond. One for the fans (and friends).’ Crime Time

'Warm, witty and engaging' Wall Street Journal
  • Published: 19 November 2024
  • ISBN: 9781804943588
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Donna Leon

Donna Leon was named by The Times as one of the 50 Greatest Crime Writers. She is an award-winning crime novelist, celebrated for the bestselling Brunetti series. Donna has lived in Venice for thirty years and previously lived in Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Iran and China, where she worked as a teacher. Donna’s books have been translated into 35 languages and have been published around the world.

Her previous novels featuring Commissario Brunetti have all been highly acclaimed; including Friends in High Places, which won the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, Fatal Remedies, Doctored Evidence, A Sea of Troubles and Beastly Things.

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Praise for Wandering Through Life

A delightful companion in life and on the page

Mark Sanderson, The Times

As the author reaches her 9th decade [this makes] for a fascinating insight into her life and world, albeit with discretion and leaving tantalising hints at what lies beyond. One for the fans (and friends).

Maxim Jakubowski, Crime Time

Warm, witty and engaging

The Wall Street Journal
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