Set in late 1940s Italy, Jenny McPhee's A Man of No Moon is told by Dante Omerto Sabado, a poet, novelist, translator, and one-time assassin who has fallen in love with a pair of glamorous American actress sisters who are in Italy to escape a scandal in Hollywood. Gladys is the impetuous sister who is mad for sex and even madder for Dante. Prudence is, as her name suggests, quite modest and slightly more beautiful and compelling than her sister. As Dante begins to sleep with both sisters, his memories of what the war caused him to do start to threaten his ability to womanize the way he did before the war. Peopled with the scandalous stories and characters of the Italian post-war movie world, this is a deliciously evocative tale. Part Patricia Highsmith, part Muriel Spark, part Hitchcock, A Man of No Moon is a delight of beauty and sensuality; of dark sorrows and ripe pleasures.