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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an utopian artist against a backdrop of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
Author
Series
Miniaturist novels volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this spellbinding stand-alone companion novel to The Miniaturist set in 1705 Amsterdam, Thea Brandt, on her 18th birthday, which marks the day her mother died, receives a parcel containing a miniature figure of her secret lover, which changes her fate forever.
Author
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in New Mexico, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's philandering husband; and Maria's design and building of a remarkable adobe house and studio for the artist...
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