![]() The Renaissance backdrop sets an elegant mood for the time-travel toggling. Soon "Luciano" is caught up in their power struggle and learns there is a cost when one cannot stravagate properly. Now the secret brotherhood dedicated to keeping the two worlds separate is being challenged by a faction with evil intent. Rodolfo explains that a stravagante is "a wanderer between worlds," and also the history of this magical travel. Bellezza is also where, as "Luciano," he meets lovely 15-year-old Arianna and Rodolfo, who created the book that acts as Lucien's "stravagation" talisman. In this colorful other world, rich with court intrigues and magic, he feels vibrantly alive, as opposed to his pain-ridden days back in England his hair has grown back and he eats with relish. ![]() Lucien can return only if he can get hold of the book again. ![]() In modern-day London, Lucien Mulholland undergoes chemotherapy treatments, but when he falls asleep clutching a mysterious book his father has given him, he is transported, or "stravagated," to an enchanting 16th-century Venice-like city called Bellezza, in the country Talia. From the British author of the Amazing Grace books comes a novel, the first in a trilogy, about a teen stricken with brain cancer who travels between two worlds. ![]()
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