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Keeping the World Away

by Margaret Forster - £8.99  Vintage (2007)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780099496861 | ISBN 10: 0099496860

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the adventures of an early-twentieth century painting and the women whose lives it touches.
 
It begins 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 a compelling look at a beautiful painting and its imagined afterlife.

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