she's grown a hard shell and keeps everyone at arm's length
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haunted by dreams of the woman he once loved
He knows that he can count on his brothers
to the have-to/get-to junctures that scaffold our days
The Artist and the Feast Neurodiversity she's grown a hard shellLonglisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction, The Artist and the Feast is a captivating novel of love, art, food, desire and thwarted ambition, which builds propulsively over one scorching French summer in 1920s Provence. During a scorching summer in 1920s Provence, a young journalist, Joseph Adelaide, turns up at the farmhouse of reclusive artist Edouard Tartuffe, hoping to write an article about him. There, he meets Ettie, Tartuffe's niece, who