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Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper By Harriet Scott Chessman

Set in Paris in the 1880s, this fictional memoir draws the reader into the world of artist Mary Cassatt and her early Impressionist paintings. Her sister Lydia posed for five of Mary’s most complex paintings whilst terminally ill.

The novel explores the sometimes dangerous relationship between art and life, illness and vitality. The writing reproduces in words the atmosphere of the impressionist masterpieces.

“this tender, elegant treasure”