Am just enjoying in the creative process of revising, re-jacketing and re-issuing my recent Room to Write novels in the hope of tempting more of you to read them. The first of these is
Gabriel Marchant – A Painter’s Tale
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Do you like my new cover?Find my novel on Amazon HERE Read Chapter Three HERE |
As he tells the whole tale of how he became a
painter Gabriel Marchant celebrates the liberating nature of art in
hard-pressed lives and the role of people like Archie Todhunter those magical
change-makers of lives like his own.
‘Wendy’s characters are wonderful … quirky and interesting people, utterly believable … A triumph.’ Northern Echo ‘
Amazon 5 Star (1) Review ‘Light At The End
Of The Tunnel.' We see
Gabriel develop as an artist from the early use of charred larch wood given to
him by his grandmother and his blind copying of Rembrandt drawings to become an
accomplished painter; Tegger learns to fashion his love of words into fine
poetry.
'Gabriel
Marchant' is a rites of passage story sympathetically revealing life in the raw.
Gabriel matures not only as an artist but discovers at Archie's Settlement 'the
complication of women' through Rosel, art teacher and older woman, Marguerite
model and Greta the gauche, clever schoolgirl who makes a pact with Gabriel to
do 'the thing that men and women do.'
And always in the background is Archie,
working to release the butterflies from thier chrysilis state, a gifted group of young
people desperate to escape the web of ignorance that could condemn them to life
in the dark as black as any mine.
A very good read. Highly Recommended.'
A very good read. Highly Recommended.'
Amazon 5.0
out of 5 stars Review (2) A
Must Read.
'An exceptional evocation of the pit: it's
darkness, its amazing colour (here is the big surprise), the earth and its
ghosts and the men who worked there, especially Gabriel the man who would be
painter - wonderful.'
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| The cover art is my own drawing. |
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