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Notes from an Exhibition: A thought-provoking and stunning classic novel of marriage, art and the secrets of family life
Patrick Gale
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A bestselling 'Cornish' novel, NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION is a moving, intuitive novel of artistic compulsion, marriage, and the secrets left behind. It was a Richard & Judy bestseller.
'Poised and pitch-perfect throughout' Mail on Sunday
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.
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Praise for Notes from an Exhibition: A thought-provoking and stunning classic novel of marriage, art and the secrets of family life
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This book is complete perfectionPoised and pitch-perfect throughout, this is an engrossing portrait of a troubled and remarkable character. A fine writer at the top of his game - Mail on SundayThis is an uplifting, immensely empathetic novel, and Gale's prose, as ever is as clear and bright as the Cornish light - GuardianIt has the kind of quietly radiant intelligence, craft and integrity that bypasses superficial questions of originality. A novel with a variety and freshness that is all the more powerful and surprising for being discovering in such a circumscribed and very English milieu - Sunday Times
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