On Frances golden Riviera, the wife of an artist gives him an ultimatum her or me. The dazzling new novel from Sophie Haydock, author of The Flames Deliciously immersive . . . Think of [Haydock] as the art worlds answer to Philippa Gregory . . . I took Madame Matisse on a wet, grey holiday and it swept me into a world of startling, splashy colour The Spectator[A] sizzling story of the art world, where sidelined women take centre stage. Its an immersive tale of muses, betrayal, sex and bad behaviour Daily MailThis is the story of three women one an orphan and refugee who finds a place in the studio of a famous French artist, the other a wife and mother who has stood by her husband for nearly forty years. The third is his daughter, caught in the crossfire between her mother and a father she adores.Amelie is first drawn to Henri Matisse as a way of escaping the conventional life expected of her. A free spirit, she sees in this budding young artist a glorious future for them both. Ambitious and driven, she gives everything for her husbands art, ploughing her own desires, her time, her money into sustaining them both, even through years of struggle and disappointment.Lydia Delectorskaya is a young Russian emigree, who fled her homeland following the death of her mother. After a fractured childhood, she is trying to make a place for herself on Frances golden Riviera, amid the artists, film stars and dazzling elite. Eventually she finds employment with the Matisse family. From...

Binding: Hardback;384 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FV; Weight: 676 g; Dimensions: 163 x 243 x 35

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