Synopsis
Augusta and Owen have taken the leap. Leaving the city and its troubling memories behind, they have moved to the country for a solitary life where they can devote their days to each other and their art, where Gus can paint and Owen can write.
But the facts of a past betrayal prove harder to escape than urban life. Ancient jealousies and resentments haunt their marriage and their rural paradise.
When Alison Hemmings moves into the empty house next door, Gus is drawn out of isolation, despite her own qualms and Owen's suspicions. As the new relationship deepens, the lives of the two households grow more and more tightly intertwined. It will take only one new arrival to intensify emotions to breaking point.
Fierce, honest and astonishingly gripping, Life Drawing by Robin Black is a novel as beautiful and unsparing as the human heart.
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“Life Drawing is a riveting story about the corrosive effects of betrayal, and a beautifully written meditation on the delicate balance of intimacy and isolation within a long marriage.”Alice Sebold, author of THE LOVELY BONES
“Life Drawing is a beautiful heart-breaker: it draws you in, thrills you, obsesses you, and finally devastates you. Robin Black has given us death, art and the shifting sands of a marriage, all wrapped up in subtle, exquisite prose. Honestly, what more could you ask for?”Liza Klaussmann, author of TIGERS IN RED WEATHER
“A wise, finely observed portrait of the workings of a marriage, as compelling as it is convincing. Life Drawing is intelligent, clear-eyed storytelling, exploring love and jealousy and the mistakes we make in their name.”M L Stedman, author of THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS
“Robin Black's Life Drawing is a richly textured portrait, unflinching in its consideration of the stuff of human relationships, alive with beauty in its exploration of the creative process. Anyone who has read Black's masterful short stories has been waiting with excitement for this, her first novel, and it does not disappoint. What it does do is to move, fascinate and eventually haunt the reader.”Belinda McKeon, author of SOLACE
