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  • Debut novel by a rising new voice in France but author lives in London

  • Story and style hit a perfect balance between Les Fugitives' longstanding fiction-meets-art theme + more mainstream fiction

  • Evocative of Letters from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig, as well as Rear Window by A. Hitchcock

    • Strong artwork and cover design by Anaïs Mims (illustration for The Fool by Anne Serre)

    • An insight into the mind of a contemporary painter and what drives artists, their search for truth, as they see it

    • A novel way to present the male gaze as non-predatory

    • Location of the novel is Paris, London (briefly) and Mauritius

    • A plot-driven and fractured narrative structured in alternating sections and point of views beween the painter's written in internal focusing style in the third person (sections entitled 'He') and first-person letters from his mother ('sections entitled 'She')

    Genre: Fiction
    Format: Paperback
    Published: 2022
    Pages: 150
    Publisher: Inpress Books - Ipsuk
    ISBN: 9781739778316

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