Florence

“Florence: Ordeal by Water was absolutely indispensableduring my research for Still Life. Here, finally, was a vivideye-witness account of the 1966 flood that devastated Florence. Utterlycompelling.”  Sarah Winman, internationalbestselling author of Still Life.

This is a vivid eyewitness account of the 1966 flooding ofthe River Arno in Florence by the American writer and historian KathrineKressmann Taylor.  Her infinitely movingdiary of the days of the flood, and those that followed, detail how thecitizens of Florence strove against the choking sea of mud that engulfed theirhomes, possessions, shops and art.

Published in a beautiful gift hardback edition, with anintroduction by acclaimed art historian and journalist, Vanessa Nicolson, Florence:Ordeal by Water documents the disaster in vivid and compassionate detail.