{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5b604f084c43ac1347a3f13a/63dfb081e27ff70011af258d?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Listening, Loss & Self Correction","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5b604f084c43ac1347a3f13a/1719727722038-1ee888ba8e77994d53334b265de20159.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Jo Brunini and Face2Face host David Peck talk about her new book <em>Never A Cloud</em>, &nbsp;empathy, listening, loss in a marriage, storytelling and self-correction, mystical</p><p>encounters, authenticity, and why fighting for your free space is so important.</p><p>For more <a href=\"https://www.giovannabrunini.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">info head here.</a></p><p><strong>Blurb:</strong></p><p>Never a Cloud charts the course of three women—Violet, Ava, and Margot— who find their way to a new understanding of home and family at Otyrburn, an estate in</p><p>rural Scotland. Violet Grey, a child of the sixties, writes from an island in Maine as the novel travels between Scotland, New York City, and Venice, Italy. Otyrburn</p><p>belongs to George Lowell and Margot Reid, who is the half-sister of Violet’s daughter, Ava. This is something Margot discovers only when Ava unexpectedly arrives.</p><p>George, a director at the Metropolitan Museum, finds himself under suspicion for illicit activity as Margot reconnects with her childhood sweetheart, who is helping</p><p>restore the worn-at-the-edges Regency manor, where secrets long forgotten, and those newly discovered, converge.</p><p><br></p><p>“The novel often feels like the film&nbsp;<em>Gosford Park</em>&nbsp;populated by readers of the&nbsp;<em>London Review of Books</em>... Brunini’s prose is often evocative...”</p><p><em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>About Jo:</strong></p><p>Jo Brunini’s paintings and poetry can be found at giovannabrunini.com.</p><p>Among her regrets are losing the handwritten letter from William Steig and not taking Tasha Tudor up on an invitation to tea.</p><p>Jo lives in Vermont with her family.</p><p><strong>Image Copyright and Credit:&nbsp;</strong>Jo Brunini</p><p><strong>F2F Music and Image Copyright</strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.davidpecklive.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">David Peck</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.davidpecklive.com/podcast/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Face2Face</a>. Used with permission.</p><p>For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.davidpecklive.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">his site here</a>.</p><p>With thanks to Josh Snethlage and&nbsp;<a href=\"http://mixedmediasound.ca/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Media Sound</a>.</p>","author_name":"David Peck"}