Life Drawing

Author(s): Robin Black

Location(s): Pennsylvania

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Augusta and Owen have taken the leap. Leaving the city and its troubling memories behind, they have moved to the country for a solitary life where they can devote their days to each other and their art, where Gus can paint and Owen can write.

But the facts of a past betrayal prove harder to escape than urban life. Ancient jealousies and resentments haunt their marriage and their rural paradise.

When Alison Hemmings moves into the empty house next door, Gus is drawn out of isolation, despite her own qualms and Owen’s suspicions. As the new relationship deepens, the lives of the two households grow more and more tightly intertwined. It will take only one new arrival to intensify emotions to breaking point.

Fierce, honest and astonishingly gripping, Life Drawing is a novel as beautiful and unsparing as the human heart.

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Fiercely observed, gently written. A couple relationship that is struggling to find its equilibrium after an affair. Life events influence Gus and Owen’s relationship until the end. Location as a character is light, but...

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Novel set in rural USA (‘the only thing you are allowed to take from an affair is wisdom’)

Author: tripfiction

Strands weave their way through the story including the discovery of old newspapers that feature young soldiers ready to go to war, all pictured in Gus and Owen’s house. Gus uses these to try and give her creativity a...

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Life Drawing by Robin Black

Author: KendraRose

“The basil I am eyeing with such irritation is rampant. The air smells of it and of lavender. Owen and I are enthusiastic, ignorant gardeners. We are inadequately attentive. We are perpetually amazed. We are innocents to nature, stupefied...

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