FIRST FRIDAY BOOK CLUB | The Painter's Daughters by Emily Howes

The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes is a story of love, madness, sisterly devotion and control, about the two daughters of 1700s English celebrated portrait artist Thomas Gainsborough, who captured his family in 44 paintings.  His revealing skills are captivatingly created in his work, featuring his two daughters, Mary and Margaret, who struggle to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits. Emily Howes draws on these portraits of the girls to create a novel casting them as central characters, in a family history and a social history of the 1700s inspired by true events. 

Emily Howes is a writer and psychotherapist. 

“Beautifully written … I raced through it.” 

Dame Hilary Mantel 

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