Where the Light Remains - A Novel

Central to "Where the Light Remains" is a 19th century painting of a woman holding a violin. With this as her starting point, Gabriel's imagination soars.

About the author

Hayden Gabriel

Summary

Set at either ends of a century, Where the Light Remains weaves the stories of two remarkable women linked by art, landscape, and the intricacies of marriage.
In 1886 Cornwall, an artist from the Newlyn School paints a portrait of a striking woman, Claira, the wife of a Methodist farmer. In the painting, Claira basks in the luminescence of a woodland sunset, violin in hand, the still air holding the notes she has just played.
In 1986, Claire, a painter, and her husband settle with their two boys in the Cornish farmhouse where Claira once lived. As Claire falls in love with the rugged landscape -- and her husband with another woman -- Claire makes two discoveries that change her as a woman and as a painter.
The lives that fill this elegant novel are a testament to the powerful ways that sensual discovery, creativity, and the experience of marriage connect women across time.

Additional text

Roger Deakin Beautifully written with a fine eye for detail, the ambitious plot spans centuries with impressive assurance.

Product details

• Authors: Hayden Gabriel, Gabriel Hayden
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2003
• EAN: 9780743243148
• ISBN: 978-0-7432-4314-8
• No. of pages: 434
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 493 g
• Illustrations: black & white illustrations
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, fiction; historical fiction; literary fiction