Charlotte Betts

Charlotte Betts creates relationship-driven historical novels in which women’s private choices meet periods of political and social upheaval. The Lost Daughter of Venice begins in 1919, when Phoebe Wyndham returns to the Venetian palazzo that was once her home after receiving an urgent message from Italy. Seventeen years have passed since she left, and the neglected Palazzo degli Angeli embodies both personal loss and the unsettled aftermath of war. This historical romance makes Phoebe’s search and the Venetian setting central to the book. Betts uses the decaying house, family secrets, and a changed city to connect questions of belonging with the costs of separation. The Lost Daughter of Venice therefore suits readers who enjoy stories in which place carries memory and returning home requires a character to reconsider the account she has told about her own past.