The narrative floats between Kate's story in 1986 and that of the artist and of the woman in the sketch, the illusive Alice/Celia from the 1920's through WWII. Kate begins a quest for the woman, which first brings her to the artist, and to the island of Corsica. Part of this hint includes a drawing from 1929 of a young woman, who bears a striking familial resemblance. But shortly before her her grandmother died, she revealed a hint to the identify of Kate's actual grandmother, her mother's birthmother. Poor Kate has lost both her mother, a famous ballerina/choreographer, and her grandmother (actually her mother's adoptive mother) within a year. (And I will give a slight spoiler alert at the end, so stop reading when you next see 3 stars like this: ***). There was a lot to like in this book: art, love, history, intertwined tales, Corsica for starters.
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