Innocence

Stunning modern new cover reissue of one of Penelope Fitzgerald's best-loved novels Innocence is set in the 1950s, when Italy was picking up the pieces after the war.

Chiara Ridolfi is the guileless daughter of a decrepit Italian family.

Barney is her practical English girlfriend, who can sum up a man, she says, in one firm hand-grip.

Salvatore is a penniless doctor from the south, who thinks he is proof against politics, social conscience and tenderness.

Chiara's cousin, Cesare, says very little, which gives him time to think...