Painted Woman

"To know is enough. To know we killed her together. I willed it, he took the blame, but we did it together. 

One day he'll look me full in the face and he'll sat it. He'll say: You know why it happened. Yes, I'll say, I know. The air will be noise enough, we won't need more words, but he'll say a few because I am a child. We did it because I know the secret. I am the secret."

If Leaning Towards Infinity explored the relationship between mothers and daughters and the pursuit of mathematics, Painted Woman gives us the tight and tangled knot binding a father and daughter, and the pursuit of art.

Death and art, violence and love, possession and yearning; this is the story of the emergence of a woman artist, because of and despite all.

First published in 1989, Painted Woman has achieved wide critical acclaim, including being set for some university courses.