The Painter’s Wife

Evelyn Rowat is an extraordinary product of a childhood tyrannized by her emotionally frigid and abusive mother whose life centers on her weekly bridge games and her role in the local Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. Feeling trapped in the stifling confines of her petit bourgeois 1940s existence, Evelyn runs away to New York just before Pearl Harbor, destined to become a rich and famous fashion illustrator in the United States and France. In Central Park, she falls in love with the tormented and unrecognized painter Rene Marcil, ultimately losing what she had most wanted to attain: her own identity.

"Splendidly written, marked with poetic language. . .." --Voir