Notes From An Exhibition A Thought - Provoking And Stunning Classic Novel Of Marriage Art And The Secrets Of Family Life

Binding: Paperback
Description: One of Patrick Gale's best - loved novels Notes FROM AN Exhibition set in Cornwall is the exquisite story of artistic compulsion marriage and the secrets left behind Poised and pitch - perfect throughout Mail on Sunday This book is complete perfection Stephen Fry Celebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studio after decades of struggling with the creative highs and devastating lows that have coloured her life. Her family gathers each of them searching for answers. They reflect on lives shaped by the enigmatic Rachel - as artist wife and mother - and on the ambiguous legacies she leaves them of talent torment and transcendent love. An uplifting immensely empathetic novel Guardian What readers love about Notes FROM AN Exhibition: A shifting multi - layered beautifully textured portrait of not - quite ordinary family life The word that shimmers with me is empathy. Gale has such a sensitive understanding of how minds and hearts work and react on one another amid the chaos and sometimes intense joys of real living I loved the exhibition - style notes at the beginning of each chapter which heralded a hint of the chapter's contents. Beautifully woven back and forth in time to reveal the complexities of fascinating family members and their relationships'
Title: Notes From An Exhibition A Thought - Provoking And Stunning Classic Novel Of Marriage Art And The Secrets Of Family Life
Author(s): Gale Patrick
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781472255389
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 2/2/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction