What I'm reading
All 2020 and past years here...
January
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art In Venice Judith Mackrell
Once Upon a River Diane Setterfield
What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues Clifford Thompson
WHAT I'M WORKING ON
January 2020
Over the years I have had many readers write to me saying they know someone who resembles the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring. Their mother, their aunt, their daughter, themselves. One reader memorably told me I resembled the Girl, and that must be why I wrote about her.
That comment came back to me recently when my new novel A Single Thread came out in Italy, with the title La Ricamatrice di Winchester. An interview with me was published in Corriere della Sera, and it was illustrated thus:
Now, that doesn't look quite like the painting, nor quite like me, but a little of both. I was totally flattered!
