From the author of A Perfectly Good Man the bestselling story of an artist tormented by depression & the toll of creativity. When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies she leaves behind an extraordinary body of work
- but for her family there is a legacy of secrets & painful revelations. Rachel exerts a power that outlives her. To her children she is both curse & blessing as they cope with the inheritance of her passions
- & demons. Only their father's gift of stillness can withstand Rachel's destructive influence & the suspicion that they all came a poor second to her art. Piecing together the clues of her life
- as artist lover mother wife & patient
- takes the reader from Cornwall to Canada across a span of forty years. What emerges is a tender story of enduring love & a portrait of a family coping with the sometimes too dazzling brilliance of a genius.