The Age of Light
07 February 2019Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
For fans of Mrs Hemingway and The Paris Wife, Whitney Scharer's The Age of Light is the riveting, vivid and powerful story of the photographer Lee Miller and her lover, Man Ray.
Model. Muse. Lover. Artist.
Paris, 1929. Lee Miller has abandoned her life in New York and a modelling career at Vogue to pursue her dream of becoming a photographer. When...
Details
07 February 2019720 minutes
Therese Plummer
9781509889143Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Scharer captures the thrill of artistic creation and the swirling hedonism of Paris’s beautiful people.The Times
In incandescent prose, Whitney Scharer has created an unforgettable heroine discovering her passion, her independence, and her art – and what she must sacrifice to have them.Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
I adored this novel. It’s sumptuous and enveloping and beautifully told . . . I can’t believe this is a debut novel - it is so wonderfully assured. Stunning.Laura Barnett, author of The Versions of Us
Transporting you into Lee Miller’s life, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a man’s world. This is a powerful, sensual and gripping portrait of the forging of an artist’s soul.Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe
