The First World War is over, and in a quiet Hampshire village, artist Stanley Spencer is working on the commission of a lifetime, painting an entire chapel in memory of a life lost in the war to end all wars. Combining his own traumatic experiences with moments of everyday redemption, the chapel will become his masterpiece.
When Elsie Munday arrives to take up position as housemaid to the Spencer family, her life quickly becomes entwined with the charming and irascible Stanley, his artist wife Hilda and their tiny daughter Shirin.
As the years pass, Elsie does her best to keep the family together even when love, obsession and temptation seem set to tear them apart…
- ISBN10 0715653687
- ISBN13 9780715653685
- Publish Date 2 May 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Prelude
- Imprint Duckworth
- Format Paperback
- Pages 368
- Language English