The Artist of Blackberry Grange: A Novel

For a young caregiver in the Ozarks an old house holds haunting memories in a ghostly novel about family secrets sacrifice and lost loves by the author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport . In the summer of 1925 the winds of change are particularly chilling for a young woman whose life has suddenly become unbalanced. Devastated by her mother’s death and a cruel broken engagement Sadie Halloran learns that her great-aunt Marguerite a renowned artist now in the throes of dementia needs a live-in companion. Grasping at newfound purpose Sadie leaves her desolate Kansas City boardinghouse for Blackberry Grange Marguerite’s once-grand mansion sitting precariously atop an Arkansas bluff. Though Marguerite is a fading shell of the vibrant woman Sadie remembers Marguerite is feverishly compelled to paint eerie hallucinatory portraits of old lovers—some cherished some regretted and some beastly. All of them haunting. With each passing night time itsel