Pixie 9781526671066 Hardback

‘A work ofgenius… a profoundlyfeministbook’ Louise Doughty’Afunny,feministbildungsroman … will see her scoop up any Sarah Waters fans who haven’t already discovered her’ Patrick Gale’It’sthrillingto live with this book’ Monique RoffeyPixie. I like it. Pixie Pamela. Its a good name for me: sometimes tiny and invisible. Other times bouncing up to the ceiling to look down on everyone.Its the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela Pixie Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet nave, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training, fascinated by the esoteric but sceptical of the world around her.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-sicle 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,Pixieis a novel of epic proportions, a tale of the twists and turns, sances and secrets, successes and devastation, of one young womans talent, grit and determination.InPixie, Jill Dawson renders the real-life figure of Pamela Pixie Colman Smith, artist, publisher and illustrator of the still-iconic RiderWaiteSmith tarot deck, in arrestingly vivid detail, breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable, but has, until now, eluded popular imagination.’Arichandmarvellousstory’ Sadie Jones’A trulyboldandvigorousandimmersivewriter’ Christobel Kent