| The Bay of Noon | |
| Author: | Shirley Hazzard |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Bildungsroman |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown and Company |
| Pub Date: | 1970 (first edition) |
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| Oclc: | 722934449 |
The Bay of Noon is a 1970 novel by the Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.[1]
A young Englishwoman, Jenny, is working in Naples some years after World War II. Alone in the ruined city, she follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance, through which she meets Gioconda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and her lover Gianni, a noted Roman film director. Meanwhile, at work she meets Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As Jenny becomes increasingly drawn into the lives of the three, she discovers that the past is not easily forgotten.