Lost found stolen strayed sold fought over... This engrossing beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures over a hundred years of an early 20th-century painting & the women whose lives it touches. It opens with bold passionate Gwen struggling to be an artist leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover & paints a small intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room. Then there's Charlotte a dreamy intellectual Edwardian girl & Stella Lucasta Ailsa & finally young Gillian who share an unspoken desire to have for themselves a tranquil golden place like that in the painting. Quintessential Forster this is a novel about women's lives about what it means & what it costs to be both a woman & an artist & an unusual compelling look at a beautiful painting & its imagined afterlife.