Nude Untitled Book

Kate, the highly strung editor of a fashionable London magazine, is determined to wrest the secret diaries of a newly discovered Russian painter of the Revolutionary period from the woman she thinks was his mistress. Clara, however, has her own agenda. In pursuit of the diary, Kate drives the aged and mischievous Clara from her home in Paris to a seaside hotel in Normandy. The weekend there, and their encounter with a struggling artist from Prague, changes all their lives.

A modern comedy of manners, Nude Untitled pits the supposedly tough against the unexpectedly romantic. Beatrice Colin is shrewd, affectionate and amusing in her portrayal of a trio of characters who will linger in the memory long after the book is put away.