Another beautifully written and well researched novel. A psychiatrist tries to solve the mystery behind a successful artist , seemingly, having a moment of madness and attacking a painting in a national art gallery. An engrossing read.
| Primary Genre | Historical Fiction |
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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life - solitary, perhaps, but full of devotion to his profession and the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient. Desperate to understand the secret that torments this genius, Marlowe embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy; from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth, from young love to last love. The Swan Thieves is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve hope.
The Swan Thieves features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
The Swan Thieves is available in Paperback
The Swan Thieves was written by Elizabeth Kostova and published by Sphere an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
The Swan Thieves has 611 pages
£9.89
