During a charity gala he and his wife are hosting at their home, the painting is replaced with a replica. In mid-20th-century New York, it’s passed into the hands of a wealthy lawyer named Marty. The painting is not only beautifully arresting, its impact echoes through the ages. Defying convention and risking her reputation, she paints a haunting landscape of a young girl standing at the edge of a forest, watching a group of ice skaters on a frozen river. In the world of this novel, our heroine Sara de Vos is the first woman to be admitted as a master painter in the Guild of St. But fiction has a sneaky way of being truer than real life. What do Amsterdam in 1631, New York in 1957, and Sydney in 2000 have in common? The remarkable (fictional) painting ‘At the Edge of the Wood’ by the equally remarkable (fictional) painter Sara de Vos.
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