Nick Dormer has a safe seat in Parliament waiting for him, a rich patron and a fiancée who wants him to rise; what he wants is to paint portraits. His cousin Peter Sherringham, a diplomat with a passion for the theatre, helps shape the gifted and relentless Miriam Rooth into a great actress, and then finds he wants to marry her.
James’s broadest novel of London and Paris, about the price of choosing art over the world. Download the free EPUB.