“This,” Adelaide reassures himself, “is what we must endure”; perhaps pain is the price of proximity to greatness and cruelty and carelessness the natural cost of art. But, as Ettie ...

Meanwhile, Tartuffe's niece Ettie moves silently through the farmhouse - cooking, cleaning, selecting props, creating the tableaux that make her uncle's artistic genius possible. But everyone has ...

A visit from a group of American art-lovers opens a crack in the door to the outside world for Ettie. The next in an electrifying debut novel set over one summer in 1920s Provence. Show more ...

Meanwhile, Ettie’s composed exterior masks her fury ... John Murray then pre-empted The Artist in a six-figure, two-book deal. Steeds was living in France when she began writing, and the ...

On April 10, at an event at the Grand Hall in Parliament, the New Zealand Remembrance Army will present a major art work to the Speaker of the House in the form of a portrait of Ettie Rout by ...