Book description
Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing,
beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a
hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose
lives it touches.
It opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist,
leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small,
intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room.
Then there's Charlotte, a dreamy intellectual Edwardian girl, and
Stella, Lucasta, Ailsa and finally young Gillian, who share an
unspoken desire to have for themselves a tranquil golden place like
that in the painting.
Quintessential Forster, this is a novel about women's lives, about
what it means and what it costs to be both a woman and an artist, and
an unusual, compelling look at a beautiful painting and its imagined afterlife.
Margaret Forster is the author of many successful and acclaimed
novels, including
Have the Men Had Enough?,
Lady's Maid
,
Diary of an Ordinary Woman
,
Is There Anything You Want?, Over
and
Isa and May
, as well as bestselling memoirs (
Hidden Lives
and
Precious Lives
) and biographies. She is married to writer and journalist Hunter Davies
and lives in London and the Lake District.
