The Sitter by Angela O'Keeffe

The Sitter by Angela O'KeeffeParis, 2020. A writer is confined to her hotel room during the early days of the pandemic, struggling to finish a novel about Hortense Cezanne, wife and sometime muse of the famous painter. Dead for more than a century, Hortense has been reawakened by this creative endeavour, and now shadows the writer through the locked down city. But Hortense, always subject to the gaze of others, is increasingly intrigued by the woman before her. Who is she and

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