Description

Breton Bay Books [Published Date: 2017]. Soft cover, 375 pp. First edition. In very good condition. Illustrated paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From back cover] Two mysterious artist's sketchbooks emerge from obscurity in 1901 but become separated, one in the hands of an illustrious photographer abandoned at birth in 1941, the other discovered by the flamboyant owner of an art gallery after her mother's death in 1992. Two stories, one an elaborate search to unlock the mystery of the sketchbooks, and the second about a family torn asunder. As the stories unfold simultaneously across the canvas of four continents, the shocking truth emerges and the strands of the tangled fates of the two women converge. Nearly a century after the discovery of the sketchbooks their astonishing origin is revealed, changing the lives of the two women forever and rocking the art world like no other art discovery in history.