Painting Portraits of Everyone I've Ever Dated

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A wry, tender and funny debut novel about art and love andhow the act of seeing lies at the heart of both.

All Ellie Robertson has wanted to be since childhood is a painter: after all, thats the easiest way to speak without actually having to say anything. But now shes turning thirty,hashad a major career win, and isonly justrealising that she might have let some minor things slide. Like, for instance, working out how to love another human being.

So Ellie decides to do what any normal person would do: paint a portrait of each of her exes, from the childhood crush to thewomanshe may or may not still be madly in love with. The only problem is that she now needs to get in touch with everyone shes dated, and not everyone is exactly happy to talk to her.

Hilarious and bittersweet, Painting Portraits of Everyone Ive Ever Dated is a storyofa young woman who decides to finally try and see other people even if she runs the risk of (god forbid) finallyseeing herself.

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Joseph Earp is a writer, painter and poet. Earp has been shortlisted for the Peter Carey Short Story Award twice, and his journalism, fiction and non-fiction has published in theSydney Morning Herald,Junkee, theGuardian,Vice,LitHub,Sydney Review of Booksand more.