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    The Privacy of Art
    The Privacy of Art
    The Privacy of Art
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    The Privacy of Art

    By Roslyn McFarland

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    *** Bronze Medal Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards ***

    This is a story about love. It’s set in the beautiful Blue Mountains area of Australia and revolves around a Bloomsbury-like group of artists, who live there from the Sixties to the present day.

    Neil Baxter and Isabella Shaw, share a successful artistic partnership – but to whose cost? Their unorthodox relationship, built upon mutual admiration, strong bohemian values and libertarian principles, has some painful ramifications when their daughter, Persia, marries her father’s ex-lover.

    But more than this, Neil and Isabella’s story is the backdrop for the emotional heart of this novella, which is the evolving relationship between Isabella’s son, Hugo and his childhood friend, Meg Taylor.

    Told through a series of interwoven narratives, where the past is always bubbling to the surface, The Privacy of Art explores the ideas of artistic and emotional experimentation involving love and desire; truth, deception and collusion; ambition and artistic jealousy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTellwell Talent
    Release dateJul 9, 2014
    ISBN9780992537449
    The Privacy of Art
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    Roslyn McFarland

    Roslyn McFarland is a writer and editor of a range of educational publications, including a series of best-selling HSC English text books. She has had several short stories published and her novella The Privacy of Art, which is set in the Blue Mountains where she has lived for over thirty years, is available as an ebook on all online platforms. All the Lives We've Lived is her first novel.

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