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A woman was on the bridge. Directly across from him, separated by thirty feet and the seething throng of vehicles and foot traffic: as he stared, the sun broke through to cast a flood of pale light upon her. Her clothes were ragged – he had only a vague impression. Lush, thrilling, and erotically charged, a triumph of suspense and dazzling imagination, Elizabeth Hands Mortal Love is an extraordinary work that spans more than a century, uniting genius past and present with strange, tensile strands of inspiration, obsession, and lust.A tragedy that occurs in a hospital for the insane in Frankfurt, Germany, will have repercussions across decades and eras. Mortal Love. In the Victorian Age, a mysterious and irresistible woman becomes entwined in the lives of several artists, both as a muse and as the object of all-consuming obsession. Radborne Comstock, one of the early twentieth century’s most brilliant young painters, is helpless under her dangerous spell. In modern-day London, journalist Daniel Rowlands meets a beguiling woman who holds the secret to invaluable—and lost—Pre-Raphaelite paintings, while wealthy dilettante-actor.
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