A Long Life, Art and A Dream., Cheryl Bennet
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A Long Life, Art and A Dream.
A Gothic Tale of Art, Family and The Pre-Raphaelites

Author: Cheryl Bennet

Narrator: Imogen Smith

Unabridged: 3 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/22/2021


Synopsis

1854 and in a grand house built to offer a safe home for a bruised and battered family two gentleman, perhaps both in their middle years, enjoy an informal dinner party. Lucas Bartock Whitby doesn’t get many visitors but Richard Bentley is enjoyable company as they talk of art, politics and gossip, eat good food and drink very acceptable red wine.During this informal meeting Bentley respectfully asks Lucas to take on a commission, a painting. Lucas has moderate renown as a local artist but has never been offered a commission before. He is truly humbled to be sought out to create such a work of art. Of Hungarian heritage, Lucas is intelligent but reserved and mindful of his… should we say cultural heritage. Living with his lively and outgoing niece, Caroline, they are a depleted family. Depleted for many reasons that Victorian England would find difficult to understand. Caroline is a woman ahead of her time but very much tied to her ancestral past, and a family name both cherished and hidden. But Lucas is a complex person, and although holding on to his family’s heritage with a sense of selfless duty, he also has ambitions, hopes and dreams. A gothic but cosy tale of family, culture, blood and paint, and a very strong obsession with the Pre-Raphaelites. 

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