Juliet Nicolson

The summer I dwelt in marble halls

Gill Johnson recalls the glorious months she once spent in the ‘gilded labyrinth’ of a Venetian palazzo, employed as an English tutor to an aristocratic Italian family

Gill Johnson poses on the piano nobile of the Palazzo Brandolini. ‘I neither saw nor heard anyone play the harp in the background,’ she admits. [David Ross]

  • Love from Venice: A Golden Summer on the Grand Canal

    Gill Johnson

    Hodder & Stoughton, pp. 368, £25

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