(Book for review courtesy of NetGalley)
Harper
In the 1990s two art students, Patrick and Caroline, meet and have a brief romance. Years later they are paired to do graduate work with an art historian. Caroline decides to study the lone painting of Juliette Willoughby, an artist who died in a fire along with her surrealist painter lover Oscar Ehrlich (whom Patrick has chosen to study.) Patrick and Caroline's love story parallels that of Oscar and Juliette as they try to find out what really happened to the pair of painters in the 1930s. The novel flits between Caroline and Patrick's past and present, and Juliette's timeline. The modern era aspect of the novel involves a murder which is used as a framing device. The novel offers a compelling story of what art really means and how far people will go to capture beauty.
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