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Notes from an Exhibition
- Author
- Patrick Gale
- Narrator
- Patrick Gale
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 15 February 2024
- Run Time
- 11 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'Poised and pitch-perfect throughout' Mail on Sunday
Celebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studio, after decades of struggling with the creative highs and devastating lows that have coloured her life. Her family gathers, each of them searching for answers. They reflect on lives shaped by the enigmatic Rachel - as artist, wife and mother - and on the ambiguous legacies she leaves them, of talent, torment and transcendent love.
Critics Review
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This book is complete perfection
Stephen Fry
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Poised and pitch-perfect throughout
Mail on Sunday
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Dense, thought-provoking, sensitive, satisfying, humorous, humane - a real treat
Daily Telegraph
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As rich and inventive as we would expect from this brilliant author
Independent
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An uplifting, immensely empathetic novel, and Gale's prose, as ever is as clear and bright as the Cornish light
Guardian
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Details
- Author
- Patrick Gale
- Narrator
- Patrick Gale
- Duration
- 11 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 February 2024
- ISBN
- 9781472255662
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Family life fiction / Stories about family
Synopsis
A bestselling 'Cornish' novel, NOTES FROM AN EXHIBITION is a moving, intuitive novel of artistic compulsion, marriage, and the secrets left behind. It was a Richard & Judy bestseller.'Poised and pitch-perfect throughout' Mail on SundayCelebrated artist Rachel Kelly dies alone in her Penzance studio, after decades of struggling with the creative highs and devastating lows that have coloured her life. Her family gathers, each of them searching for answers. They reflect on lives shaped by the enigmatic Rachel - as artist, wife and mother - and on the ambiguous legacies she leaves them, of talent, torment and transcendent love.
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