Pixie

<p>'A work of <b>genius </b>... a profoundly <b>feminist </b>book' Louise Doughty <br>'A <b>funny</b>, <b>feminist </b>bildungsroman ... will see her scoop up any Sarah Waters fans who haven't already discovered her' Patrick Gale <br>'It's <b>thrilling </b>to live with this book' Monique Roffey <br><br><i><b>“Pixie”. I like it. “Pixie Pamela”. It’s a good name for me: sometimes tiny and invisible. Other times bouncing up to the ceiling to look down on everyone.</b></i><br><br> It’s the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet naïve, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training, fascinated by the esoteric but sceptical of the world around her.<br><br> After the deaths of her beloved mother and her troubled but well-intentioned father, Pixie finds herself in the complex, political world of fin-de-siècle art, trying to get her stunning work seen and to forge a name and a path for herself in life. Across Jamaica, Devon, London and Brooklyn, <i>Pixie</i> is a novel of epic proportions, a tale of the twists and turns, séances and secrets, successes and devastation, of one young woman’s talent, grit and determination.<br><br> In <i>Pixie</i>, Jill Dawson renders the real-life figure of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith, artist, publisher and illustrator of the still-iconic Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck, in arrestingly vivid detail, breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable, but has, until now, eluded popular imagination.<br><br>'A <b>rich </b>and <b>marvellous </b>story' Sadie Jones <br>'A truly <b>bold </b>and <b>vigorous </b>and <b>immersive </b>writer' Christobel Kent</p>