Molly & the Captain

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A celebrated artist of the Georgian era paints his two young daughters at the family home in Bath. The portrait, known as ‘Molly & the Captain’, becomes instantly famous, its fate destined to echo down the centuries, touching many lives. In the summer of 1889 a young man sits painting a line of elms in Kensington Gardens. One day he glimpses a mother at play with her two daughters and decides to include them in his picture. From that moment he is haunted by dreams that seem to foreshadow his doom. A century later, in Kentish Town, a painter and her grown-up daughters receive news of an ancestor linking them to the long-vanished double portrait of ‘Molly & the Captain’. Meanwhile friendship with a young musician stirs unexpected passions and threatens to tear the family apart.

Backorder Notice MessageJan 01, 1970

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‘A gripping mystery… sweeping across centuries in its three interlinked sections, Molly & the Captain summons the past effortlessly’ Observer

A celebrated artist of the Georgian era paints his two young daughters at the family home in Bath. The portrait, known as “Molly & the Captain”, becomes instantly famous. In the summer of 1889, a young painter glimpses a mother at play with her two daughters in Kensington Gardens and decides to include them in his picture. A century later, in Kentish Town, a painter and her grown-up daughters receive news of an ancestor linking them to the long-vanished double portrait.

Molly & the Captain is a story about time and art and love. Through the prism of a single painting it examines the mysteries of creativity, and the ambiguous nature of success. With period subtlety, intricate characterisation and storytelling verve, Anthony Quinn melds three families and three centuries into a single vision of human frailty and longing.

‘A delicious mystery’ Daily Mail

‘A thrilling read’ Spectator

‘So versatile – Quinn seems to reinvent himself with every book’ Jonathan Coe

Additional information

Weight 340 g
Dimensions 196 × 126 × 32 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

413

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K