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This New York Timesâbestselling trilogy follows an artistic girl as she grows up to become a painterâfrom the âhighly giftedâ author of Cluny Brown (The New Yorker).  A master of the twentieth-century comedy of manners, British author Margery Sharp has been praised as âone of the most gifted writers of comedyâ (Chicago Daily News) and âa wonderful entertainerâ (The New Yorker). In her New York Times bestseller, The Eye of Love, she introduced nine-year-old artist Martha, a character so fascinating Sharp continued her story into adulthood in two beautifully wrought follow-up novels. â[Martha] offers a completely unique portrait of female genius, in all its single-minded dedication and selfishnessâ (The New York Times).  The Eye of Love: They met at the Chelsea Arts Ball: He came as a brown paper parcel, she as a Spanish dancer. Dolores and Harry have been passionately in love ever since. But ten years later, during the Great Depression, Harry must marry his colleagueâs daughter to rescue his nearly bankrupt business. Yet with help from Doloresâs artistically inclined, orphaned nine-year-old niece, Martha, the couple may still find their way to happily ever after, in this New York Times bestseller.  âThis postwar novel is one of her best.â âThe New York Times  âA double-plotted . . . masterpiece with a great deal of wit and not an ounce of sentimentality.â âThe Guardian Martha in Paris: Now eighteen, Martha is blessed with the opportunity of a lifetime: an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris to study painting. Despite her single-minded pursuit of creativity, she attracts an admirer in the City of Lightânot a debonair Frenchman, but a homesick British bank clerk. When an unexpected complication arises, Martha deals with the consequences in her usual sensible, independent fashion.  âChalk up another for Margery Sharpâs collection of offbeat heroines and outrageously funny novels.â âNewark Evening News  Martha, Eric, and George: In the decade since her time in Paris, Martha has become a successful artist in England. Now, as she returns to Paris to attend an exhibition of her work, she must face some unfinished businessânamely her ten-year-old son, George, whoâs been raised by his father, Eric, and doting grandmother. In this precocious Parisian boy, she is finally about to meet her match.  âAmusing, enjoyable, Miss Sharp is a born storyteller.â âThe Times (London) |
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