Roslyn McFarland
Paperback 2024
Different times – different values – but the same moral dilemmas.
Foreign Attachments has been described as a ‘beautifully constructed Russian doll of a novel’ about two Australian women, who leave their homeland in search of a room of their own in which to forge their art.
Stella Bowen studies painting in London where she meets, among other literati, wild Ezra Pound, and the bearlike, charming womaniser Ford Madox Ford, with whom she lives in the countryside, has a child and enters the glittering life of Paris in the 1920s. There she struggles to survive and paint, and where the likes of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Jean Rhys dance in and out of her life.
A century later, art curator, Neve Palmer leaves Australia for life in Paris with the suave Antoine to write her novel on Bowen’s extraordinary life, including the years Bowen was appointed an official Australian WWII artist.
Roslyn McFarland’s Foreign Attachments delivers a deeply entertaining and life-filled portrait of the lives of creative women in a novel as richly rendered as one of Bowen’s exquisite paintings. Jo Gardner
Published by Ginninderra Press, Foreign Attachments is available as a paperback and as an ebook in 2024.
ISBN: 9781740272636
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