The Artist

Winner of the Waterstones Debut Prize

by Lucy Steeds

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Pub Date 30 Jan 2025 | Archive Date 30 Jan 2025

John Murray Press | John Murray

General Fiction (Adult) | Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

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Description

All Joseph wants is to be let into Tartuffe’s world.

All Ettie wants is to escape it.

PROVENCE, 1920.

Ettie moves through the remote farmhouse, silently creating the conditions that make her uncle’s artistic genius possible.

Joseph, an aspiring journalist, has been invited to the house. He believes he’ll make his name by interviewing the reclusive painter, the great Edouard Tartuffe.

But everyone has their secrets. And, under the cover of darkness, Ettie has spent years cultivating hers. Over that sweltering summer, everyone’s true colours will be revealed.

Because Ettie is ready to be seen. Even if it means setting her world on fire.

All Joseph wants is to be let into Tartuffe’s world.

All Ettie wants is to escape it.

PROVENCE, 1920.

Ettie moves through the remote farmhouse, silently creating the conditions that make her...