The music lesson
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The diary of a New York art historian as she keeps company a Vermeer painting, being held by the IRA for ransom. Alone in her lover's cottage in Ireland, Patricia Dolan admires the woman on canvas. "She's beautiful," she writes. By the author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.
FictionArt theftsIrish Republican ArmyWomen art historiansAppreciationIrish Republican Army in fictionArt thefts in fictionVermeer, Johannes, in fictionWomen art historians in fictionSelf-realizationIreland, fictionFiction, romance, contemporary