Picasso's Lovers

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'A bold, sumptuous portrait of a great artist and the women who inspired, frustrated, loved, and loathed him... Picasso's Lovers is an epic, sensuous delight' Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author

A vivid reimagination of the women drawn into Pablo Picasso's charismatic orbit , for readers of The Paris Wife and Mrs Hemingway.

France, 1923. The war to end all wars is over and Paris is a Bohemian paradise for foreign artists and writers seduced by the promise of a different life. Pablo Picasso is already famous, the centre of gravity in the Parisian art world. Long, luxurious summers are spent on the Riviera where the beautiful and wealthy descend on the Cote d'Azure, and anything seems possible in the name of art.

New York, 1953. For Alana Olson, there's always been something about Picasso. An art historian and aspiring journalist, Alana was bound to encounter the most renowned artist of the era, but it was her late mother's strange fascination with the man that inspired Alana's doctoral thesis on his work. Then an assignment for a profile on Picasso from her dream publication leads Alana to a series of intimate interviews with Sara Murphy and Irene Legut - two women from the once-vibrant French social circle that included the artist.

As Alana is pulled deeper into the glamorous lives of the past,the unseen works of art, whirlwind romances and life-changing secrets, she begins to uncover hidden details and a disturbing convergence with her own life that bring her closer to Picasso, and those who loved and loathed him, than she ever could have imagined.

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Jeanne Mackin is the author of several historical novels, including The Beautiful American and The Last Collection. She taught creative writing at Goddard College and has given numerous workshops. She lives in upstate New York and the first art she ever hung on a wall was a reproduction of Picasso's Le Reve.