I’d had The Artist’s Secret on my bedside table for months, I knew I would love it and was happy to just know it was there waiting..and it was just as fun as I knew it would be! What a saga! And what a heroine we have in Wren Summers! Beautiful, smart, driven, capable and thoughtful..so much fun to be in her world! And what a world; from Nowra to Venice to New York and back again; this was perfect armchair travel! Art galleries and auction houses are certainly not places I’m familiar with so it was wonderful to vicariously be part of them through this novel. It is so opulent a story; mobsters/ leaders of industry/ lifelong secrets/ priceless masterpieces but also one of finding ones place..‘elemental needs’ as Alexandra Joel says in her author note (which by the way I LOVE) I’m so glad I read The Artist’s Secret, it was everything I wanted!
After I finish this post I’m going straight over to ReadA Chat to log it and man am I hoping there are ReadAs who have read it because there are things I need to talk through! Definitely a hissy fic novel, although I’m still grappling with the fact a novel set in the 1980s is historical!!!
