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Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over...This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures, over a hundred years, of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. It opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room. Then there's Charlotte, a dreamy intellectual Edwardian girl, and Stella, Lucasta, Ailsa and finally young Gillian, who share an unspoken desire to have for themselves a tranquil golden place like that in the painting. Quintessential Forster, this is a novel about women's lives, about what it means and what it costs to be both a woman and an artist, and an unusual, compelling look at a beautiful painting and its imagined afterlife.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Keeping the World Away
• Author: Margaret Forster
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780099496861
• ISBN: 0099496860
• ID: 04018181
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 252 g
• Dimensions: 130 × 199 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. March 2007

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