Girl Reading

Seven portraits. Seven artists. Seven girls and women reading. A young orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist's servant girl in 17th-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A young woman reading in a Shoreditch bar catches the eye of a young man who takes her picture, and a Victorian medium holds a book that she barely acknowledges while she waits for the exposure. Each chapter of this richly textured debut takes us into a perfectly imagined tale of how each portrait came to be, and as the connections accumulate, the narrative leads us into the present and beyond — an inspired celebration of women reading and the artists who have caught them in the act.

• Author
• Katie Ward

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 342

• Publisher
• Virago Press (UK)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781844087389

• Genres
• fiction, art, historical, adult, unfinished

• Release date
• 2011