Synopsis
The Breath of Life
Published by Faber & Faber
0 Male 2 Female
Gaugin's epithet serves as the motto for this moral tale of two women, both in their 60s, whose lives are interwoven in ways neither of them yet understands
Madeleine Palmer is a retired curator, living alone on the Isle of Wight
One day Francis Beale comes to her door, a woman she has met only once, and who is now enjoying sudden success, late in life, as a popular novelist
The progress of a single night comes fascinatingly to echo the hidden course of their lives ...
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