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Born into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to inter-war Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in with the most brilliantly bohemian set: the surrealists Torn between an intoxicating love affair with a married Russian painter and her soaring ambition to create, Ivory’s life is violently interrupted by the Second World War. She flees from Europe, leaving behind her friends, her art, and her love. Now over ninety, Ivory labours defiantly in the frozen north on her last, greatest work ― a vast account of animal languages ― alone except for her sharp research assistant, Skeet. And then unexpected news from the past arrives: this magnificently fervent, complex woman is told that she has a grandchild, despite never having had a child of her own …
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"A thrillingly elegant yet raw evocation of a woman clawing her way to a creative life, inspired by the story of surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. “Heidi Sopinka's gorgeous debut novel maps the difficult territory between history and memory, love and loss.” JOHANNA SKIBSRUD, author of The Sentimentalists. “With stunning prose, lavish details, deep wisdom, and emotional precision, reading this book is like falling in love ? my interest in everything else was lost.” CLAIRE CAMERON, author of The Last Neanderthal."
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