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A painter's death sets into motion a story of desire-past and present-and its enduring repercussions
Catherine and Vinny are sisters and writers living in contemporary London. Catherine, a professor, publishes erotic novels under an assumed name, keeping her acclaimed novelist husband, Adam, in the dark. When not writing her poetry, Vinny wanders the streets of the city marking the houses of female authors with chalk quotations from their work.
When Adam's father dies, both women are forced to reconsider the event that shaped their lives, the betrayal at the heart of their relationships. Haunted by their individual and common pasts, they must come to terms with each other, and with their present-day lives.
Acclaimed author Michèle Roberts not only brings history to life-interwoven into this contemporary narrative is the story of another set of sisters, the Brontës-but illuminates the way it informs, or shadows, the present. Evocative, emotional, and intelligent, The Mistressclass is an exploration of the desires that move us-toward art and literature, and toward each other.
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Drake Maliko
reviewed The Mistressclass on July 30, 2009
The Mistressclass
Two Novels Shoved Together - One of them Crap
This is a bizarre book which I would not have usually chosen, but it was on my reading lists at uni. On the one hand it's a story of two modern day sisters and their complicated love triangle past. On the other, there is an (apparently linked, but not linked very well) story of Charlotte Bronte's love letters to Mr Heger, which quickly descends into S&M Bronte sisters.
As I studied this at the University of East Anglia, where Michele Roberts teaches, we then has the prospect of Ms Roberts explaining the piece to us... not very well. She didn't really have an explanation for why she'd made the Bronte sisters' relationship so sexual, or why they were necessary at all to the modern day plot - except to explain that there are literary ghosts in the modern world.... echoing through, but why echoing through these two? Except that they're all sisters and they all like books, and...no, I didn't get it.
This book gets two stars from me because the modern day story features a bohemian cliché character who I'm rather fond of - who does fun things like make her own blue plaques at sites of literary interest, and has furniture out of skips and gets stoned to read - but though the actual writing style is masterfully executed, and the (modern day) characters are fully-fledged, I think the plot is badly thought out and clumsily put together.
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