Night street

Night Street is a dreamy book, filled with passion for art. The life of Clarice Beckett is imagined, although she was a real artist living at the beginning of the twentieth century who painted some wonderfully modern pieces in Australia. She was virtually unknown during her life due to her gender and the different nature of her work, but when her pieces were rediscovered she became part of Australia's artistic history. Kristel Thornell has depicted her life as introverted, secluded and consumed by her painting. Indeed, the author evoked the artist in the book - the writing was dreamy, tonal, illuminating, and lyrical. It is hard to believe that this is her first novel.

Night Street is a dreamy book, filled with passion for art. The life of Clarice Beckett is imagined, although she was a real artist living at the beginning of the twentieth century who painted some wonderfully modern pieces in Australia. She was virtually unknown during her life due to her gender and the different nature of her work, but when her pieces were rediscovered she became part of Australia's artistic history. Kristel Thornell has depicted her life as introverted, secluded and consumed by her painting. Indeed, the author evoked the artist in the book - the writing was dreamlike, tonal, illuminating, and lyrical. It is hard to believe that this is her first novel.

* I received this book for free from Goodreads First Reads.

Beautifully written. reimagining the life of Clarice Beckett, a Melbourne artist in the 1920's. Must look at some of her work in the NGV.

A beautifully written impressionist novel about an Australian impressionist painter of the interwar period, also a little known feminist icon.

A fascinating imagining of artist Clarice Beckett's life in supple and poetic prose