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attending glamorous cocktail parties and mingling with the literary elite

Inside you will find:

Keep the faith

Light: A Day in Monet's Garden Fiction_Gift_Guide and the Arab countries ofA day in the life of Monet, a novel as luminous as the colors he is using to portray his garden, in his last, great paintings. "I have never read a text which goes even half as far as this one in expressing the particular poignancy which lay at the heart of the impressionist movement. I say this as an art critic. As a novelist I would simply like to pay my tribute to the mastery of language, portraiture and storytelling which Figes has now at her