Laura & Miriam.....perhaps......
Author Wilkie Collilns father was a Landscape painter, and
Walter Hartright was a drawing master; thus, how
fitting this sequel focuses on one of England's great
Romantic Landscape artists: J.M.W. Turner. In James Wilson's
imaginings Walter Hartwright is commissioned to write a
biography of J.M.W. Turner; and, he discovers "A Dark Clue"
hidden deep within Turner's paintings. Hartwright "becomes
eerily obsessed with reconstructing a life that is shrouded in
mystery and steeped in rumor." He discovers that Turner
had a dark side. What if Walter and Marian are being
used in a plot to discredit Turner?
"This debut novel by Wilson...is an evocative and sophisticated
literary thriller set in 1850s Victorian England.Taking his cue from an
archetypal Victorian suspense novel, Wilkie Collin's The Woman
in White, Wilson composes an epistolary fiction in letters and
diary entries, reviving Collin's classic characters Walter Hartright
and his sister-in-law Marion Halcombe. Here, Hartwright and
Halcombe are partners in a search to uncover the truth
about elusive Romantic landscape artist J.M.W. Turner...." -Publishers Weekly
"...As Walter traces the artist's steps through country villas and London alleys, naively secure in
his determination to unearth the truth about this wild genius, he sinks instead more and
more deeply into the life he is supposed to be investigating, neglecting his fairy-tale wife
Laura and their two children back in Limmeridge. Not even Marian, when she takes over the
research from Walter, can avoid Turner's infernal pull...." - Kirkus
But first - we have our book discussion "The Woman in White" coming October 5th.
I hope to see you at the library!