Keeping the World Away Book

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.

Keeping the World Away : Paperback : Vintage Publishing : 9780099496861 : : 15 May 2007 : Talks about the fictional adventures of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This novel 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.