Stone Virgin

Stone Virgin

<p><strong>In its romantic and dangerous tour of history, Barry Unsworth's <em>Stone Virgin</em> rivals A. S. Byatt's <em>Possession</em>.</strong></p> A mysterious sculpture of a beautiful and erotic Madonna holds the key to the Fornarini family's secrets. When Raikes, a conservation expert, tries to restore her, he is swept under the statue's spell and swept under the spell of the seductive Chiara Litsov, a member of the Fornarini family now married to a famous sculptor. Raikes finds himself losing all moral grounding as his love for statue and woman intertwine in lust and murder.