Book of the year so far.
For me, this was like the conclusion of the Gamache series; it helps to have read most of the others to pick up all the themes. Peter & Clara Morrow embarked on a one year trial separation at the end of no.373, as he couldn’t cope with her success as an artist. A year has passed and he hasn’t returned.
Clara, Myrna, Gamache and Beauvoir, aided and abetted by other three Pines characters set off on a wonderful and epic journey to track him down.
There is so much in this about life, art and painting, but it is also a wonderful story, with echoes, as she notes in the preface, of both the 'Odyssey' and 'Heat of Darkness'.
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