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Whitney Scharer

    Whitney Scharer crafts narratives with a profound understanding of her characters' inner lives and motivations. Her fiction delves into the complexities of human connection and the search for self within challenging circumstances. Scharer's prose is evocative and richly detailed, immersing readers in the atmosphere of her stories. She possesses a distinctive ability to explore psychological depths with subtle emotional nuance.

    Whitney Scharer
    La edad de la luz
    The Age of Light
    • The Age of Light

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      'Powerful, sensual and gripping' - Madeleine Miller, author of Circe 'Fans of Mrs Hemingway and The Paris Wife will love this one' - Elle Model. Muse. Lover. Artist. Paris, 1929. Lee Miller has abandoned her life in New York and a modelling career at Vogue to pursue her dream of becoming a photographer. When she catches the eye of artist Man Ray she convinces him to hire her as his assistant. Man is an egotistical, charismatic force and they soon embark upon a passionate affair. Lee and Man spend their days working closely in the studio and their nights at smoky cabarets and wild parties. But as Lee begins to assert herself, and to create pioneering work of her own, Man's jealousy spirals out of control and leads to a betrayal that threatens to destroy them both . . .

      The Age of Light2019
      3.7