Random House, July 2014

In LIFE DRAWING, Robin Black unfolds a fierce, honest, and moving portrait of a marriage—the betrayals and intimacies, the needs and regrets, the secrets that sustain love and those that threaten to destroy it. Augusta and Owen have moved to the country, and live a quiet, solitary life, Gus as a painter, Owen as a writer. But beneath the surface of this tranquil existence lies the heavy truth of Gus’s past betrayal: an affair that ended but that quietly haunts Owen, Gus and their marriage. When Alison Hemmings, a beautiful British divorcée, moves in next door, Gus, feeling lonely and isolated, finds herself drawn to Alison. As their relationship deepens, the lives of the three neighbors become more and more tightly intertwined. With the arrival of Alison’s daughter Nora, the emotions among them grow so intense that even the slightest misstep has the potential to irrevocably harm them all. With lyrical precision and taut, suspenseful storytelling, Black steadily draws us deeper into a world filled with joys and darkness, love and sorrows, a world that becomes as real as our own. LIFE DRAWING is a novel as beautiful and unsparing as the human heart.

PRAISE:

“…A beautiful tender look at a marriage that hums with thriller-like tension… It might be the nearest thing to a perfect novel as I have ever read.” –The Bookseller

“An astute inquiry into relationships and betrayal, this novel is nerve-wracking yet irresistibly readable.” ― Publishers Weekly

“LIFE DRAWING is a riveting story about the corrosive effects of betrayal, and a beautifully written meditation on the delicate balance of intimacy and isolation within a long marriage.” ― Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

“LIFE DRAWING is a magnificent literary achievement with a combination of wisdom and velocity that distinguishes it from any other novel I have read, an intimate revelation of love’s unlikely endurance and of art’s role in reviving and redeeming the past, and a heart-stopping, jaw-dropping thriller. ― Karen Russell, author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove

Life Drawing by Robin Black review – a story of love and isolation

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