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WINNER OF THE 2020 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER 2021 'Richly sensuous... something special' The Sunday Times 'A thing of shimmering wonder' David Mitchell
TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?
Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London.
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
The premise of this book is inspired. King spotlights the Paris art world during the decade preceding the ground-breaking 1st Impressionist exhibition in 1874. For his subjects, he takes an unlikely duo – Ernest Meissonnier (the academic painter who specialised in closely worked historical and military scenes) and Edouard Manet (the master of modern life and enfant terrible who inspired the Impressionists). The author moves backwards and forwards between the men’s different creative projects, plotting their relationship to the Paris Salon, that all-important, state-sponsored exhibition that could make or break an artist at the time. In so doing, King gives us two radically different angles on the 19th-century art world, with all its peaks and troughs, rules and penalties, backstabbing and intrigue. The research and level of detail here are astounding, but the text isn’t too heavy. On the contrary, flitting between the two different artists gives the narrative impetus,…
With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and the rivalry between Meissonier and Manet.
While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic movement has ever been quite so controversial. The drama of its birth, played out on canvas and…
