The Portrait Artist by Dani Heywood-Lonsdale Groundswell Speaker 2024 dark and psychologically rich novel

dark and psychologically rich novel that forensically examines how an unhappy marriage comes to end in murder

She was seeking nothing less than an entirely different life

narrative non-fiction and novelistic forms – probe deeply into the motivations of murderers and misfits

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The Portrait Artist by Dani Heywood-Lonsdale Groundswell Speaker 2024 dark and psychologically rich novelAll that is hidden will soon be revealed . . . One morning in 1890, a painting wrapped in brown paper appears on the steps of the National Gallery and causes a sensation. Its clearly by Timothy Ponden Hall, whose paintings were celebrated and debated not just for their beauty, but for the rumours behind them: they were believed to immortalise the souls of their subjects. But Ponden Hall has been thought dead for the last 50 years. . . In a bid to