Literary Fiction
A reclusive artist's mysterious painting sends two men searching for vanished sisters bound by rivalry, longing, and a shattered past.
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A reclusive artist's mysterious painting sends two men searching for vanished sisters bound by rivalry, longing, and a shattered past.
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Sisters Natalie and Alice Kessler were close until adolescence wrenched them apart. Natalie is a headstrong, manipulative beauty; Alice is a dreamer who loves books and birds. During a lakeside summer holiday, they sit for a family portrait by struggling young painter Thomas Bayber. By summer's end, three lives are shattered. Decades later, Bayber, now a reclusive, world-renowned artist, unveils a never-before-seen work, Kessler Sisters. Bayber asks Dennis Finch, an art history professor, and St...
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Sexual content
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Sensual body descriptions; past affairs and longing central to shattered lives
Violence & gore
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Substance use
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Dissolute artist lifestyle; drinking implied in adult social contexts
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Sibling rivalry, emotional trauma, fractured families, artist's harmful self-absorption
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