Catching the Light [electronic resource]

Joanna Horton2025

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‘Powerful and mesmerising, Catching the Light is a brilliant portrait of the ways we are consumed by motherhood, art and the yearning for self.’—Shankari Chandran, Miles Franklin award–winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and Safe Haven ‘Immediately gripping and thrillingly nuanced, this is a novel you’ll devour in a rush and then savour for a long, long time.’—Diana Reid, bestselling author of Love & Virtue and Signs of Damage Water, sand, hills, sky: the painter was out at sea, looking towards the shore. Impossible to say whether he was coming in or going out. When Sylvie, a single mother yearning for a creative spark, meets Michael, a renowned painter, she feels something she hasn’t felt in years. Impulsively she decides to uproot her life and move to Isaiah, an artists’ colony, with her teenage daughter, Alice. To Sylvie, Isaiah seems to offer a second chance at the things she’s sacrificed—freedom, love and art—but her relationship with Michael b...