After Anjelica (detail) (Paperback)

When Anjelica arrives barefoot at the doorstep of Laura's bohemian Hampstead house, she is on a pilgrimage: she has left her dour northern origins to see for herself the magnificent oil painting that dominates the kitchen. No one can resist the gifted and beautiful young artist: an artistic community needs artists, even devours them. Anjelica's new 'family' both love her and fatally endanger her - and no one more so than Brigid, the narrator, the shadow to Anjelica's light. In a sweeping psychological drama, this group of artists, journalists and intellectuals move through the years from the carefree excesses of the 1950s to the nemesis of the 1990s.