![]() ![]() Worse still, Marty de Groot is bringing the one in his possession along. Ellie is curating a show at the New Gallery of South Wales and two copies of Sara de Vos’s At the Edge of the Wood are expected any day. It is the year 2000 and it looks as though the moment has arrived. If it ever comes to light, her career as a world-renowned art historian will be ruined. Copying and restoring artworks is a legitimate sideline for students like Ellie, but she is so meticulous and obsessed with this commission to copy the painting from a photograph that she realises she is crossing a line, That act is to haunt her for decades. During a dinner party in Manhattan, it is stolen and replaced by a forgery, which has been painted by a young Ph.D student, Eleanor Shipley. Following the death of her only child, Kathrijn, she creates At the Edge of the Wood, a melancholy, moody painting, which comes into the possession of the family of Marty de Groot, and remains there for some 300 years. ![]() Sara de Vos is a fictional artist from the Dutch Golden Age. The thing is, I haven’t heard a bad thing about it in the intervening time. ![]() Its International Dublin Literary Award longlistng finally propelling it to the top. Exhorting everyone to go, buy and read it NOW! I obeyed the first two instructions, and then left the book in the TBR for some 18 months. Kimbofo’s excited tweets, as she was reading this novel. ![]()
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