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From number-one internationally best-selling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly noticed tale of two young women - a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain - and the powerful puzzle that ties them mutually. Britain, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she begins working at the esteemed Skelton Institute of Art, she discovers a painting rumored to be the task of Isaac Robles, a artist of enormous talent and eyesight whose mysterious death has confounded the art work world for many years. The excitement in the painting is matched up by the intrigue around the conflicting reviews of its finding. Drawn into a sophisticated web of secrets and deceptions, Odelle does not know what to believe or who she can trust, including her mesmerizing colleague, Marjorie Quick. Spain, 1936. Olive Schloss, the little princess of an Viennese Jewish art work dealer and an British heiress, practices her parents to Arazuelo, a poor, restless community on the southern coastline. She grows near Teresa, a housekeeper, and Teresa's 1 / 2 sibling, Isaac Robles, an idealistic and ambitious painter recently delivered from the Barcelona salons. A dilettante buoyed by the brand new fervor that will soon erupt into civil battle, Isaac dreams to be a painter as famous as his countryman, Picasso. Elevated in poverty, these illegitimate children of the neighborhood landowner enjoy exploiting the rich Anglo-Austrians. Insinuating themselves into the Schloss family's lives, Teresa and Isaac help Olive conceal her imaginative talents with disastrous effects that will echo into the ages to come. Rendered in lovely depth, The Muse is a separate and enthralling tale of desire, ambition, and the ways in which the tides of history inevitably form and establish our lives.
