Product description NA Review "An engrossing political murder-mystery". - Amanda Craig, The Times "This is a meaty, satisfying piece of work, astute and convincing, detailing Gabriele's burgeoning sexual and artistic nature". - Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times "Mary Hoffman has written an elegant novel which is totally believable, witty, and hard to put down". - Kathy Stevenson, Daily Mail "David brings a sexy immediacy to the creation of a sculptural marvel ... the book makes palpable the contemporary meaning of a statue of a giant-killer - a (literally) gigantic anti-aristocratic gesture". - Suzy Feay, Financial Times It is a brilliant premise for novel ... Full of carefully-researched detail, David is at once the tale of a fictional character, the story of a work of genius and an evocation of a particularly compelling moment in Italy's past, Guardian (Linda Buckley-Archer) Mary Hoffman captures all the energy and excitement of the Italian Renaissance as she brings Michelangelo's David down from his pedestal to walk the streets of Florence as a flesh-and-blood stonemason. A thrilling story of dangerous rivalries in art, love and politics, with one of the world's greatest masterpieces at its heart, Ross King (author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's ceiling)