"This exceptional novel illuminates the beauty and struggle of both the artist and the female spirit during the bloody time of the Franco-Prussian War."  

5/5

“Butterfield provides more than surface brush strokes, adding exquisite details of Parisian and Berthe’s life, the view from an artist’s eye, and the eruptions of touchy temperament. This is an impressive debut novel for Butterfield, who builds on her experience as a teacher of women’s art history to develop
a multi-dimensional painter of the light, la luministe.” 

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