Molly & the captain / Anthony Quinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Anthony, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painters--Fiction.

Painters.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

England--Fiction.

England.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

413 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Abacus Books, 2022.

Summary:

"A celebrated artist of the Georgian era paints his two young daughters at the family home in Bath. The portrait, known as Molly & the Captain, becomes instantly famous, its fate destined to echo down the centuries, touching many lives. In the summer of 1889 a young man sits painting a line of elms in Kensington Gardens. One day he glimpses a mother at play with her two daughters and decides to include them in his picture. From that moment he is haunted by dreams that seem to foreshadow his doom. A century later, in Kentish Town, a painter and her grown-up daughters receive news of an ancestor linking them to the long-vanished double portrait of Molly & the Captain. Meanwhile friendship with a young musician stirs unexpected passions and threatens to tear the family apart. Molly & the Captain is a story about time and art and love. Through the prism of a single painting it examines the mysteries of creativity, and the ambiguous nature of success. What weighs more, loyalty to one's talent or loyalty to one's blood? Does self-sacrifice ennoble the soul or degrade it? And what does it mean to speak of the past when its hold on the present is inescapable? Through Anthony Quinn's signature gifts - period subtlety, intricate characterisation and storytelling verve this triptych novel melds three families and three centuries into a single vision of human frailty and longing."--Publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781408713228

1408713225

9781408713211

1408713217

OCLC:

1274201192