Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story.When Emily meets the enigmatic and dazzling actress Tamsin, her life changes. Drawn into Tamsin's world of Soho living, boozy dinners, impulsive decisions and cocktails at impossibly expensive bars, Emily's life shifts from black and white to technicolour and the two women become inseparable.Tamsin is the friend Emily has always longed for; beautiful, fun, intelligent and mysterious and soon Emily is neglecting her previous life - her work assisting vulnerable women, her old friend Lucy - to bask in her glow. But when a bombshell news article breaks, Emily realises that Tamsin has been hiding something about her past life. Something that threatens to unravel everything...Young Women is a razor sharp novel that slices to the heart of our most important relationships and shows how easily and often women are damaged, both by men and by each other.
《Fantastically Great Women》系列女力回歸！童趣筆觸搭配幽默解說，讓八位才華橫溢的傑出藝術家用她們的生命故事告訴你如何用藝術找回自己的身分，而她們大膽無畏、充滿鮮活生命力的創作又是如何改變了藝術史的發展。Over half of all the visual artists working today are women, but the paintings and sculptures shown in many galleries and musuems tell a different story because they're usually the work of men. In this book Kate Pankhurst, descendent of Emmeline Pankhurst, tells the fascinating stories of some of history's most talented female artists and shows how their creations transformed the art world. Meet Elisabeth Le Brun, who painted people smiling (which was very unusual at the time). Uncover the untold story of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, the Aboriginal elder whose paintings expressed the history of her people. And then there's Peggy Guggenheim, the art collector who helped bring many talented artists into the spotlight. Frida Kahlo found the greatest muse for her art was indeed herself -- painting became a way to express her feelings and find her identity. Including comic strips, fam
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