Her first historical novel, The Birth of Venus, spent 32 weeks in the American bestseller list in 2003 her second, In the Company of the Courtesan, three years later, peaked even higher. But, however disruptive and inconvenient, the tour is essential because, while Dunant's more recent books (this is her 11th novel) have done respectably in the UK market, it is in the US that they have really hit the big time. It will take her a long way from London, which she loves, and Italy, which one suspects she loves even more, not to mention her two daughters, one at university and the other just through A-levels. But the fluster is because, tomorrow morning, she flies across the Atlantic for a coast-to-coast US tour promoting her new book, Sacred Hearts. The hallway is beautiful – Italianate and earthy – and it seems perfect for Dunant, whose other home is a flat in Florence. "I've just had it redecorated," she says. Inside, the hallway glistens copper-gold in the sun. "It's a mad day!" she says, opening the newly painted front door of her north London home.
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