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Where the Light Remains : A Novel
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Where the Light Remains
Author(s): Hayden Gabriel
Set at either ends of a century, Where the Light Remains weaves the stories of two remarkable women linked by art, landscape, and the intricacies of marriage.
In 1886 Cornwall, an artist from the Newlyn School paints a portrait of a striking woman, Claira, the wife of a Methodist farmer. In the painting, Claira basks in the luminescence of a woodland sunset, violin in hand, the still air holding the notes she has just played.
In 1986, Claire, a painter, and her husband settle with their two boys in the Cornish farmhouse where Claira once lived. As Claire falls in love with the rugged landscape -- and her husband with another woman -- Claire makes two discoveries that change her as a woman and as a painter.
The lives that fill this elegant novel are a testament to the powerful ways that sensual discovery, creativity, and the experience of marriage connect women across time.
Review(s):
Rosamunde Pilcher Author of The Shell Seekers [Q]uite an achievement. Hayden Gabriel captures the atmosphere of west Cornwall without pretension or sentiment. I enjoyed this novel very much.
Regina McBride Author of The Nature of Water and Air and The Land of Women Beautifully wrought and sensorially vivid. The lives of two women from separate places in history are woven together here, each exquisitely illuminating the other.
The Bookseller (UK) This glorious sweeping tale...is an original....
Roger Deakin Beautifully written with a fine eye for detail, the ambitious plot spans centuries with impressive assurance.
ISBN: 9780743243148
Author(s): Hayden Gabriel
Set at either ends of a century, Where the Light Remains weaves the stories of two remarkable women linked by art, landscape, and the intricacies of marriage.
In 1886 Cornwall, an artist from the Newlyn School paints a portrait of a striking woman, Claira, the wife of a Methodist farmer. In the painting, Claira basks in the luminescence of a woodland sunset, violin in hand, the still air holding the notes she has just played.
In 1986, Claire, a painter, and her husband settle with their two boys in the Cornish farmhouse where Claira once lived. As Claire falls in love with the rugged landscape -- and her husband with another woman -- Claire makes two discoveries that change her as a woman and as a painter.
The lives that fill this elegant novel are a testament to the powerful ways that sensual discovery, creativity, and the experience of marriage connect women across time.
Review(s):
Rosamunde Pilcher Author of The Shell Seekers [Q]uite an achievement. Hayden Gabriel captures the atmosphere of west Cornwall without pretension or sentiment. I enjoyed this novel very much.
Regina McBride Author of The Nature of Water and Air and The Land of Women Beautifully wrought and sensorially vivid. The lives of two women from separate places in history are woven together here, each exquisitely illuminating the other.
The Bookseller (UK) This glorious sweeping tale...is an original....
Roger Deakin Beautifully written with a fine eye for detail, the ambitious plot spans centuries with impressive assurance.
ISBN: 9780743243148