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Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
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The Marriage Portrait takes place in Renaissance Florence and is the alternative history about about an insightful, inutitive child, Lucretia de' Medici, the smart and rebellious daughter of the Duke of Florence. This story is about her arranged marriage at 15 to the Duke of Ferrara, and - as stated on the first page of the book - about the rumour that her husband killed her less than a year after their wedding. I found the book quite suspenseful, but also very tender and poetic. Also, I love books about artists and seeing through their eyes how they approach their art, which was a big part of the novel.
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Rachel Cusk, Transit and Kudos
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One of my favourite discoveries of 2022. I loved reading about Faye's encounters and her conversations with friends and strangers alike. It reminds me a bit of Salinger's "Nine Stories" in the best way, enough love and squalor to please Esmé. Especially Transit was so full of great stories; Cusk really is able to capture that uncomfortable, liminal space in between two situations, to describe what it means to go through upheaval, not knowing how something will turn out. To know something old - a relationship, a flat, a homecountry - was not the right fit, but not knowing at all whether what will come will be any better.
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Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
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I have been a fan of Smith since reading "How to Be Both" and I am now three quarters through her beautiful Seasonal Quartet. I hardly know another author who writes about our contemporary times with such ease. i love how art is always present in her works and how her prose is playing sly tricks on the reader. she is sometimes so literal in her imagery that you can only think something is meant poetically or metaphorically, only to find out two sentences later how it was indeed meant literally.
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Wachs, by Christine Wunnicke
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historical love story about two women who are both artists in 18th century France, each a bit stranger than the other. very funny and lovely, short & sweet
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