Debut novelist Emily Howes meets the acclaimed curator and biographer James Hamilton to talk about the eighteenth-century artist Thomas Gainsborough and the writing of her book, The Painter’s Daughters. It’s a reimagining of the lives of Gainsborough’s two daughters, Peggy and Molly, and the complicated relationship between them. Winner of the Mslexia Novel Competition and chosen for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club, the novel explores the story of the sisters – famously immortalised in their father’s paintings – and their struggles with society, control, individuality and insanity.
James Hamilton is a highly regarded curator and art historian. He is the author of Gainsborough – A Portrait.
This is the Debut Author Event
