I, Mona Lisa
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  • Published: 10 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529190274
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download

I, Mona Lisa

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9 May 2023
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10 Feb 2022
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10 Feb 2022
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An irresistible insight into the world through the eyes of the most famous painting of all time

Listen to my history. My adventures are worth hearing. I have lived many lifetimes and been loved by emperors, kings and thieves. I have survived kidnap and assault. Revolution and two world wars. But this is also a love story. And the story of what we will do for those we love.

For five hundred years we've been looking at the Mona Lisa and it turns out that she's been looking right back at us. Over the centuries, few could hear her voice, but now we are let into the secret, as she tells us her story in her own words - a tale of rivalry, murder and heartbreak. And a mystery of Leonardo's greatest lost painting. Weaving through the years she takes us from the dazzling world of da Vinci's Florentine studio to the French courts at Fontainebleau and Versailles, and into the Twentieth Century.

But, always Mona Lisa returns to Leonardo himself. Most of all, this is a love story between painting and painter. Sometimes it takes an immortal to show us what it is to be human.

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'A treat of a book' The Guardian on Mr Rosenblum's List
'Brims with passion and skillfully evokes a bygone era... a beautifully written tale' The Times on Mr Rosenblum's List

  • Published: 10 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529190274
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
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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