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Автор: Kerry Postle
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       About the Author

      KERRY POSTLE left King’s College London with a distinction in her MA in French Literature. She’s written articles for newspapers and magazines, and has worked as a teacher of Art, French, German, Spanish, and English. Kerry’s first novel, The Artist’s Muse, came out in 2017, followed by A Forbidden Love in 2019.

      She lives in Bristol with her husband. They have three grown-up sons.

      The Woman in the Painting is her third novel.

       Praise for Kerry Postle

      ‘Richly entertaining, wry and funny, and at the same time dark, thoughtful and allusive’

      ‘A richly layered read, that delivers on many levels’

      ‘Postle has taken me into a world full of characters that jump off the page with life’

      ‘This novel evokes a time and a place with such power’

       Also by Kerry Postle

       The Artist’s Muse

       A Forbidden Love

      The Woman in the Painting

      KERRY POSTLE

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      Copyright © Kerry Postle

      Kerry Postle asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008331092

      E-book Edition © May 2020 ISBN: 9780008310288

      Version: 2020-04-20

      Table of Contents

       Cover

      About the Author

      Praise for Kerry Postle

      Also by Kerry Postle

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Chapter 32

       Chapter 33

       Chapter 34

       Chapter 35

       Chapter 36

       Chapter 37

       Chapter 38

       Chapter 39

       Chapter 40

       Chapter 41

       Chapter 42

       Chapter 43

       Historical Note

       Acknowledgements

       Dear Reader …

       Extract

       Keep Reading …

       About the Publisher

       For Simon

       for loving my books when he hates historical fiction.

       Prologue

      Raphael’s house, Rome, April 1520

      The heavens opened and the rain poured down, making the streets of Rome look like streams. I was standing outside the studio I’d been working in for days, trying to dry off before entering, an ever-increasing puddle forming around my feet. I shuddered, wet and cold. The light was gloomy. I looked around. Outside, the clouds were dark, loud, threatening; inside, a sense of foreboding enveloped me like a cape. I never did like this weather. It always filled the air with sorrow, and now it gave me the uneasy