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Debut novel by a rising new voice in France but author lives in London
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Story and style hit a perfect balance between Les Fugitives'
longstanding fiction-meets-art theme + more mainstream fiction
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Evocative of Letters from an Unknown Woman by Stefan Zweig, as well as
Rear Window by A. Hitchcock
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Strong artwork and cover design by Anaïs Mims (illustration for The
Fool by Anne Serre)
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An insight into the mind of a contemporary painter and what drives
artists, their search for truth, as they see it
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A novel way to present the male gaze as non-predatory
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Location of the novel is Paris, London (briefly) and Mauritius
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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')
