A forthright investigation of human frailty and emotion with a plot that keeps you in its thrall until the last word.
When Greer Gordon met Mischa Svoboda, a driven Czech-born refugee painter, he was unknown. His debut at the small art gallery where she worked created a sensation, and their explosive love affair caused Greer to abandon her husband and career and embark on a nomadic life with Mischa.
Twenty-five years later, Tony, a young art critic who is researching a biography of Mischa, arrives in the small Italian hilltop community where Greer and Mischa now live. Greer is consumed by anxiety, fearing the biographer may have unearthed the secret she had always intended to write out of her life story.
A gripping cat-and-mouse game plays out, and with it the growing suspicion that Tony may be manipulating a dramatic outcome on which to build his career. Beautifully narrated, Virginia Duigan's intimate and enthralling portrait of the relationship between an artist and his lover will have listeners examining how their own biographies might be written, for who amongst us truly has nothing to hide?
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"Written with humour and a frison of tension as wife of famous artist faces a biography of her husband. " — Rosemary (4 out of 5 stars)
"Written with humour and a frison of tension as wife of famous artist faces a biography of her husband. "
" Good story although I knew how it would end. Characters were interesting and the story flowed well. "
" Written with humour and a frison of tension as wife of famous artist faces a biography of her husband. "
" It was impossible to make any kind of connection with the main character. This lady is such an unrealistic character; that I could hardly understand her. I tried for three chapters and then gave up. "
" mmmm....I was disappointed. The big "secret" was obvious from the beginning, and the characters were interesting, but didn't develop. Some nice writing, but lacked a plot skeleton to hold it up. "
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