I, Mona Lisa
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  • Published: 9 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529158793
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $26.00

I, Mona Lisa

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'Lively, tender and expansive' THE TIMES

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR

'A beautifully written, literary tour-de-force' John Ironmonger, author of Not Forgetting the Whale
'A wonderfully written story of art, but also of obsession, friendship and love - I absolutely adored this novel' Jillian Cantor

The Mona Lisa has hung in the Louvre for over two-hundred years. She has watched alone in silence as millions of people have admired her behind the glass.

Now, she is finally ready to tell her own story.

Over five centuries, from da Vinci's bustling Florentine studio to the opulent French court, Mona will be desired, stolen, heartbroken, curious, furious, and above all, she will be heard.

'Solomons' prose is lyrical and her detail immense. No longer can I look at the Mona Lisa without hearing her. But more, now I know her' PRESS ASSOCIATION
  • Published: 9 May 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529158793
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Natasha Solomons

Natasha Solomons is the author of the internationally bestselling novels Mr Rosenblum's List, The Novel in the Viola, which was chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club, and The Gallery of Vanished Husbands. Natasha lives in Dorset with her son, daughter and her husband, the children's author, David Solomons with whom she also writes screenplays. Her novels have been translated into 16 languages. When not writing in the studio, Natasha can usually be found in her garden.

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Praise for I, Mona Lisa

[A] lively, tender tale . . . In her zingy new novel [Solomons] gives the Mona Lisa . . . power, casting her as the fanciful narrator of her own story

The Times

Solomons' prose is lyrical and her detail immense. No longer can I look at the Mona Lisa without hearing her. But more, now I know her

Press Association

A wonderfully written story of art, but also of obsession, friendship and love - I absolutely adored this novel

Jillian Cantor, author of The Lost Letter and In Another Time

Oh, my god, I love this book! Extraordinarily inventive, a beautifully written, literary tour-de-force - a delicious historical and artistic feast

John Ironmonger, author of Not Forgetting the Whale

A vividly beautiful tribute

Woman's Own Magazine

History buffs will find much to enjoy... moreover her writing is melodic, as precise as the brushstrokes on a Renaissance painting

Jewish Chronicle