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2025: You’ll be thinking differently about a life art class after this!
2025: You’ll be thinking differently about a life art class after this!
Sophie, a painter, is holidaying with friends in a stunning villa in Greece – her best friend Helena is shortly to be married, and this is the last time she and her friends will be together as single women. But life has treated them so differently since their university days, that Sophie is questioning everything about their friendship. Meanwhile her partner, Greg, is desperate for them to try for a baby, but she wants to devote herself to her art – and there are other, deeper forces, pulling the two of them in opposite directions.
In the course of the holiday, Sophie paints a nude portrait of her friend Alessia, and becomes involved in an intense affair with Ky, who lives and works on the island. Both the painting, and the affair, will challenge everything Sophie thinks she knows, about art, about motherhood, about sex – and about how and with whom she wants to spend the rest of her life.
Greece
Sifnos
The town of Artemonas and the capital Apollonia are mentioned and lovingly evoked
Lucious and evocative!
Destination/location: Greece. Sifnos, Artemonas Author/guide: Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett Departure Time: 2025
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