A sweeping story of love that stretches across the years.
The war has ended & Rita Fairweather is waiting for George
Lottie Lane is all alone in the world...
As a chambermaid at one of London’s busiest inns, condemned to a life of drudgery
...Dr Andrew Marlow has a perfectly ordered life, full of devotion to his work & the painting hobby he loves. This order is destroyed when renowned artist Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery & becomes his patient. As Oliver refuses to speak, Marlow's only clue is the beautiful, haunted woman Oliver paints obsessively, day after day. Who is she, & what strange hold does she have over this tormented genius? Desperate to help, Marlow embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver, & to a dark story at the heart of French Impressionism