The strays
Bitto, Emily2016
Book
On her first day at a new school, Lily meets Eva, one of the daughters of the infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are attempting to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work with them at their family home. As Lily's friendship with Eva grows, she becomes infatuated with this makeshift family and longs to truly be a part of it. Looking back on those years later in life, Lily realises that this utopian circle involved the same themes as Evan Trentham's art: Faustian bargains and terrible recompense; spectacular fortunes and falls from grace. Yet it was not Evan, nor the other artists he gathered around him, but his own daughters, who paid the debt that was owing.
Main title:
The strays / Emily Bitto.
Author:
Bitto, Emily, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Legend Press, 2016.London : Legend Press, 2016.
Collation:
288 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781785079511 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Language:
English
BRN:
2352738