The Gallery of Vanished Husbands

from alandee

"The Gallery of Vanished Husbands" is an excellent representation of the London art scene of the 1960's to the early 2000's. Juliet Montague is a young mother of two whose husband disappears absconding with the only object she values; a portrait of her as a young child. Being a devotee of figurat...

from Pattymclpn

I was impressed with the thought that went into this novel. The title is great and the use of portrait titles and the artist for each chapter is ingenious. We follow the life of Juliet and the painting of her portrait by each of the painters throughout the book. Each section represents a differen...

from jayne_charles

This author has a nice style of writing which means subjects I would normally expect to be boring aren't. In this novel we meet Juliet who has been abandoned by her husband who disappeared without a trace one day, but who must still be quite a catch because it seems every artist in town is queuei...

from whitreidtan

How much of who you are is dictated by you and how much by your status within your community? We create tidy boxes in which to tuck people but we can just as easily be tucked into a box ourselves, and not necessarily one of our own choosing. In Natasha Solomons' novel, The Gallery of Vanished Hus...

from BrokenTeepee

Juliet finds herself adrift after her husband vanishes. It's the 1960s and according to the laws of her Jewish faith only husbands can divorce wives. Since he just left without divorcing her she is in limbo; she can't remarry, she can't divorce she can only float along wondering. She slowly start...