In some ways Grahame’s novel reads rather like a Mary Balogh romance. That is when the blackmailer strikes, and Fleur is forced to make a practical marriage and pretend it’s love. Their stations in life are too disparate, and her feelings for him are too fledgling to be love. But she never expects that Anthony will propose. After her husband’s death, he is quick to make her acquaintance, and they begin a friendship that is healing for Fleur. Her beauty, radiance, happiness, and affectionate nature beckoned to him then. That is when Sir Anthony Camwell offers her marriage.Īnthony has been in love with Fleur since the first time he saw her – the night before her life went to pieces. She fears very much that she will be forced to become the wanton she is portrayed in the paintings in order to never be publicly called one. She has little money, and that won’t last long. Fleur is only just beginning to recover from the sad events of her life when the paintings’ owner comes forth and begins to blackmail her.

The subject matter is quite sexual, and if the paintings were discovered, Fleur’s reputation would be completely sullied. But one evening everything goes wrong, and the two of them begin a downward spiral that will end in poverty, substance abuse, despair, and death.īefore Frederick died he sold several paintings of Fleur that were never meant for outside display. At one point their life together was picture book perfect, and they were considered the happiest couple in Paris. Her husband, Frederick Brooks, was a painter of some renown. OL4310901W Page_number_confidence 95.15 Pages 394 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220719220441 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 279 Scandate 20220714200150 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780385468305 Tts_version 5.Fleur Brooks is the painted lady. Urn:lcp:paintedlady0000grah_u6o9:epub:0cef3d33-2fb5-40ba-8edd-9cda0a530782 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier paintedlady0000grah_u6o9 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s28nh6jj21s Invoice 1652 Isbn 038546830X Lccn 92039009 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9754 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001204 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:01:38 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40604208 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

The Painted Lady by Lucia Grahame