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Les Fugitives
Lucie Paye
Mauritius
Naples
Natasha Lehrer
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painting
Paris
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Rear Window
softlaunch
suspense
women's writing
Product details
- ISBN 9781739778316
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 2022
- Publisher: Les Fugitives
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A woman addresses letters to an absent loved one while in the apartment opposite hers, a mysterious female figure keeps on appearing under a landscape painter’s brush. Directing her reader and characters with a deftness reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, Lucie Paye dramatizes the power of unconditional love and the role of the unconscious in artistic creation. From Paris to Naples, Mauritius and London Absence traces a poignant search for redemption and truth, among the lies that destroy lives.; ‘In this remarkable debut, the story of a painter fixated with a ghostly female figure becomes entwined with the story of a woman seeking to connect with a long-lost son. A delicate tale of artistic obsession and creation, and a moving meditation on longing and loss.’ — Ángel Gurría-Quintana, Financial Times
Lucie Paye's debut novel Les coeurs inquiets was published in 2020 to critical acclaim during the first lockdown in France in Editions Gallimard's prestigious Collection Blanche. Further to her studies at the Ecole du Louvre, she published several works on garden history. She lived in California for several years and now lives in London with her two children.
