About Dante’s Gift
Even delightful flowers are born from dirt.
This is one of the many ballads of Dante De Luca. He is, at first glance, simply a poverty-stricken painter in a scruffy sweater and scuffed shoes. A nineteen-year-old boy full of youthful folly and fanciful ideas of love. Those things are true, but Dante has hidden depths that transcend the remarkable, abilities that soar in rampant strides clear into the stratosphere, elevating him above others in a way almost inconceivable to the human brain.
Oh, and he has two hamsters.
This novelette adds tantalising detail to events prior to the start of the Painter Trilogy. It can be read as a standalone, before or after the trilogy’s main events. The story is set in Naples, Italy, many years before mobile phones, Zoom or Uber.
Dante’s Gift is suitable for readers 12+
Note: **This is a novelette of 13,000 words, not a full novel.**
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Author Bio:
Alexander Small is a YA fantasy author from Scotland.
One day, while stuck in his home during the bleak Scottish winter lockdown, he looked at a painting on his wall–a peaceful country scene filled with trees and warm sunshine–and thought how nice it would be to just walk inside it and escape. The idea of the Painter's Apprentice took hold and grew from there.
Alexander is an avid reader and student of literature. He graduated with MA and MLitt degrees from the universities of Dundee and St Andrews in Scotland. He loves travel, swimming, and writing stories that give people pleasure.
After almost twenty years of working all over the world, Alexander now lives in rural Scotland, close to Falkland Palace and its surrounding forest.