Synopsis
<b>Front flap Description from the PS Publishing HB first edition:</b> "When Helen Ralston's biographer first saw the novelist's painting of a Scottish island, she thought it was an undistinguished watercolour landscape. A closer look revealed the most disturbingly erotic picture of a woman she'd ever seen.
<p>Dated 1929 and mysteriously labeled "My Death," the painting was clearly a self-portrait from a critical moment in Helen's relationship with W.E. Logan, her art teacher and one of the most important Scottish artists of the period.
<p>Whatever happened during their visit to an uninhabited island changed both of their lives profoundly, and was clearly the key to all their future work.
<p>But Helen, now in her late nineties, is unhelpful, and her biographer finds herself becoming obsessed with uncovering the truth - a truth that seems, somehow, to connect with her own life.
<p>Lisa Tuttle's powerful and evocative novella brilliantly explores an intense and tragic relationship in a hothouse world of love, sex, death and creativity."