LIGHT. A DAY IN MONET'S GARDEN

This shimmering novel is an extraordinary portrait of a day in the life of an artist at work and at home. In prose as luminous as the colours Monet is using to portray his garden, Eva Figes guides us from dawn (midnight blueblack growing grey and misty) through midday (the sun was high now shrinking what little shadow remained, fading colours, the pink rambler roses on the fence by the railway track looked almost white) to evening (the tide of shadows rising as the sunset glow faded outside.) Monets wife, grieving for a lost daughter,...[Read more]