The diary of a New York art historian as she keeps company a Vermeer painting, being held by the IRA for ransom. Alone in her lover's cottage in Ireland, Patricia Dolan admires the woman on canvas. "She's beautiful," she writes. By the author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.
interesting story about an art theft, seduction and betrayal. Very readable and well worth a go. Occasionally the Irish characters seemed a bit stage Irish but overall not a bad book. I found it difficult to pinpoint the actual time for a while until the characters started to talk about specific events in the past. Then again I'm sure there are places in the wilds of Cork that are like that.
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