Life Drawing
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Leaving the city and its troubling memories behind, Augusta and Owen have moved to the country for a solitary life where they can devote their days to each other and their art, where Gus can paint and Owen can write. But the facts of a past betrayal prove harder to escape than urban life. Ancient jealousies and resentments haunt their marriage and their rural paradise. When Alison Hemmings moves into the empty house next door, Gus is drawn out of isolation, despite her own qualms and Owen's suspicions. As the new relationship deepens, the lives of the two households grow more and more tightly intertwined. It will take only one new arrival to intensify emotions to breaking point.
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A friend recommended this novel to me because it's about an artist who has an affair. That's the extent of the similarities between this book and the novel I'm currently writing, but I was taken by the relationship between the artist and her husband as they struggle to deal with the aftermath of that affair. The book is ultimately about love and family, however flawed, and the story is told in beautiful, fluid prose.
