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Orna O’Reilly is a former interior designer from Ireland. She moved to Italy in 2013, began an award- winning blog, Orna O’Reilly: Travelling Italy, and lived in the Veneto region of northern Italy close to Venice, from where she drew inspiration for her first work of fiction, The Blonde in the Gondola. Her second book, In the Shadow of the Olive Tree, was set in Puglia in south eastern Italy, where Orna lived among the olive groves with her husband, Tom, for almost seven years. They have now returned to live permanently in the Veneto. Her latest book, to be published shortly, Dark Harvest, is set between both regions of Italy with which she has become deeply familiar. Orna has been a contributing writer for various travel and design magazi ...more

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Writing The Blonde in the Gondola

I moved to Italy in 2013, with the express purpose of writing a novel. At that point, I had no idea what the novel would be about, nor where it would be set.
Finding myself living a stone’s throw from La Serenissima and writing a blog about all things Italian, I decided that my first work of fiction should be set there, with plenty of winter fog to add to the atmosphere.
My in depth research include Read more of this blog post »

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	The Blonde in the Gondola 4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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