Former Tate Britain director Penelope Curtis on why she became a novelist

I was prompted to write it by preparing a speech for my father's funeral and discovering a number of things in the family history that were new or different...

I'd like to think that the novel itself conveys something real about the difficulties both of making art and of knowing who it is for...

This first part of the book is about my grandmother, who was already married. She is a painter who wants to understand her place in the art...

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