THE MUSE

Set around the discovery of a lost painting with a secret history, author Jessie Burton takes readers from the swinging streets of London in 1967 back to 1930s rural Spain, where artist Isaac Robles and his half-sister, Teresa, befriend the Schloss family and set in motion devastating and long-lasting consequences. It’s up to Odelle Bastien, not long arrived from Trinidad and newly employed typist at the Skelton gallery, to uncover the truth about the painting, an artwork that holds at its very core dark secrets of love, deception and death. Burton is an exquisite storyteller, who masterfully weaves the dual strands of her story to its dramatic conclusion.