The Sisters Mortland
Author: Sally Beauman
If I didn’t spy, I’d be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing – Maisie’s maze – and I hate it. I need to be informed …’ The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of thirteen-year-old Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she begins an….Read More
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