Life Drawing

Resumen del libro

From the author of If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, Life Drawing is a fierce, honest and moving story of married life - its betrayals, intimacies, and secrets.

Augusta and Owen have taken the leap. Leaving the troubled associations of the city behind them, they 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 in peace.

But beneath the surface of this tranquil existence lies the heavy truth of a past betrayal quietly haunting their marriage.

When beautiful Alison Hemmings moves in next door, Gus finds herself drawn out of isolation and towards this new arrival, and as their relationship deepens, the lives of the three neighbours become more and more tightly intertwined. With the arrival of Alison's daughter Nora, the emotions grow so intense that even the slightest misstep has the potential to do irrevocable harm to them all.

Life Drawing is a fierce, honest, and moving portrait of a marriage the betrayals and intimacies, the needs and regrets, the secrets that sustain love and the ones that threaten to destroy it. With lyrical precision and taut, suspenseful storytelling, Black steadily draws us deeperinto a world filled with joys and darkness, a world that becomes as real as our own. Life Drawing is a novel as beautiful and unsparing as the human heart.