![]() ![]() Reading the blurb from the NetGalley website, I really thought this would be my kind of book. Iris is in danger but she doesn’t know it… Iris is friends with a kind urchin called Albie, who in turn runs errands for the obsessive collector Silas. ![]() Her twin sister, Rose, disfigured by smallpox and bitter about everything, stays in the job while Iris lives a bohemian lifestyle with the (fictional) painter Louis Frost, part of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. This historical novel focuses on Iris, a young woman who leaves her awful job in a dollmaking workshop to become an artist’s model. I feel bad saying this of a debut novel which won the 2018 Caledonia Award (an international competition for unpublished novels), but my reviews are always honest, so here goes…īut I’ll tell you what it’s about first. ![]() I found this book to be disappointing and unpleasant. ![]()
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