‘Blue Woman’ follows artist Rose Hartwood from her roots in a bombed out house in wartime London, to artistic fame, and back to obscurity. This beautiful novel charts the ebbs and flows of her personal and professional lives with great subtlety and sensitivity. We are taken along her journey rising to fame then coming back down again, re-building her life, forging a legacy. The book gradually reveals both artist and woman in their intertwined complexity: joy, struggle, determination, achievement, regret, the inheritances of love and the consolations of beauty.