These two women’s perspectives weave together to create a story that is both compelling and tragic. She believes it is a lost Colin Colahan, the second portrait of Molly Dean. However, Molly’s is not the only perspective we follow.Īlex Clayton is an art dealer who finds herself inexplicably drawn to a painting nobody knows the origins of. But the inevitability of the muse’s death, which we are aware of from the beginning, eats away at the reader as we follow in her footsteps, and creates an underlying tension that is uncomfortable to say the least. Molly’s perspective is hopeful, the characterisation of a woman on the rise, with intelligence that nobody but her artsy peers can comprehend. Molly Dean is an aspiring journalist and the murdered muse Kovacic gives voice to in her novel. Katherine Kovacic’s debut novel, The Portrait of Molly Dean, does just this. It is less common to break the silence of these forgotten women through the voice of a historical, murdered muse from the 1930’s, while blending thriller and historical fiction. “The abuse of an artist’s muse is a common concept in novels, often used as a throwaway plot device to further an artist’s story.
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