Winner of the 1996 HarperCollins Fiction Prize Yesterday in my studio the desire came upon me. The desire to paint both girls naked. The pregnant Queen with her Vesuvian belly hiding beneath the swirls of Persian silk the colour of hearth-fire and t...
A novel of love, ladders, and the unexpected ... Let this beautiful, sensual story carry you away ... Paula Sánchez is famous in Seville. Now she is sitting for the Penitent Magdalen, along with Father Rastro and the monk Victor Maria, and watched o...