When you look at a painting, what do you really see?
When eighteenth-century poet Alison Cockburn accepts a light-hearted
challenge from her friend Katherine Hume to live as a man, in order to
infiltrate Edinburgh's all-male skating club, little do they both
realise how her new identity will shape their future.
And in the present, art historian Claire Sharp receives a mysterious
request: to settle once and for all the true provenance of the iconic
painting The Skating Minister.
The Edinburgh Skating Club is the tale of one woman's mission to
infiltrate a male-dominated society. Imaginative, romantic and
ultimately moving, this time-shift adventure celebrates the women
overlooked by history - and, above all, love, in all its unexpected
forms.