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In Lucia's Eyes
In Lucia's Eyes
Nov 27, 2025 6:19 PM

Author:Arthur Japin,David Colmer

In Lucia's Eyes

Amsterdam 1758, and a man is artfully seducing a woman. He is, to all appearances, Monsieur le Chevalier de Seingalt; she is a courtesan, well-known in Amsterdam for the fact that she never removes her veil. He sets her a challenge: if she can find a woman who has suffered after falling in love with him, she is entitled to resist his charms; if not, she should play his game.

What Seingalt doesn't know is that he has already met the veiled woman many years ago, in another life. What Lucia doesn't know is that Seingalt will go down in history as one of the world's greatest lovers, Casanova.

A deliciously entertaining and moving story of innocence and experience, love and sacrifice, In Lucia's Eyes takes the reader on an entrancing journey from the canals of Amsterdam to those of Venice, painting a glorious portrait of the eighteenth century.

Reviews

This is Casanova as you've never seen him before - through the eyes of the girl who always loved him. Wonderfully imagined and deeply moving, it keeps you hooked till the final tear-stained page

—— Allison Pearson

Its a delight

—— Lucy Beresford , Literary Review

To see the world through Lucia's eyes is to see it in the fullness of wonders and dangers most never notice

—— Paulo Coelho

An enthralling tale on the mystery of first love and its endurance in the face of a lifetime of hardships

—— Andrea Di Robilant, author of A Venetian Affair

Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting

—— Observer

One of England's foremost historical novelists

—— Birmingham Mail

An excellent story

—— Irish Press

A penetrating and thoughtful study of Catherine de'Medici

—— Northern Daily Telegraph

'Irrestistably engaging'

—— Kirkus

'Witty and intelligent...just the thing for a lazy summer day'

—— Newsday

Genuine wit and charm

—— Image

Witty novel about life and love after divorce, Hollywood-style.

—— Daily Express

A bitchy and entertaining look at life in La-La Land

—— The Sun

A perfect poolside read

—— New Woman
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