The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
A Novel

Please take note of this book and don't just add it to your ever-growing to-be-read list, where it might get lost among the towering shelves like Mount Everest. Instead, dive into it as soon as you get the chance! This gem stands out as one of the best books of the year, and I want to make sure it's......more

4.5 rounded up This complex and clever novel starts in Paris of 1937/8 with the tragic love affair between two surrealist artists, the heiress Juliette Willoughby and her married lover, Oskar Erlich. The pair perish in a studio fire along with their work, including Juliette’s “Self Portrait as a Sph......more

Some women won't be painted out of history… Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress artist Juliette Willoughby perished in an accidental studio fire in Paris, alongside her masterpiece Self-Portrait As Sphinx. Fifty years later, two Cambridge art history students are confounded when they stumble......more

reading vlog: [URL not allowed] BEST fiction book I've read so far this year by a COUNTRY MILE!! I adored everything about this book - such complex characters, so many little mysteries that are all resolved in a wonderful way by the end of the book, immaculate vibes! cannot recommend this......more

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Genre: Mystery Thriller + Historical Fiction I’m not going to say much about the book’s synopsis because it consists of three stories in three timelines that eventually intertwine. This book revolves heavily around the mystery of the Willoughby family, so it is better that you explore the......more