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"Solitary Mathilda has long been enamored with the ‘Bright Young Things’ of the 20s, and throughout her life, her attempts at reinvention have mirrored their extravagance and artfulness. After discovering a photograph of the forgotten Black modernist poet Hermia Druitt, who ran in the same circles as the Bright Young Things that she adores, Mathilda becomes transfixed and resolves to learn as much as she can about the mysterious figure. Her search brings her to a peculiar artists’ residency in Dun, a small European town Hermia was known to have lived in during the 30s. The artists’ residency…

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3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2020
    Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd · 460 pages · 9781913090111
  • Audiobook · English · 2020
    Audible Studios on Brilliance · 9781713539018
  • Other · English · 2022
    Duke University Press · 9781478018728
English literatureSexual minority cultureFictionArtRomans, nouvelles