Published in 2023
328 pages
Marta Molnar is the author of the dual-timeline women’s fiction novels The Secret Life Of Sunflowers about Vincent van Gogh’s sister-in-law Johanna Bonger and Girl Braiding Her Hair about Suzanne Valadon who painted with the Impressionists then was forgotten by history. Marta is an avid art history enthusiast and a self-taught artist. She studied writing at Seton Hill University and (briefly) at Harvard University.
What is this book about?
Her friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Paris celebrated her as a sought-after model, until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students.
By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she’d been a horse walker, a milliner, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat, but that was just the beginning of her adventures. Here is her story, along with Ellie’s, a modern woman a century later at a crossroads of her life, who pulls Suzanne from the shadows of the past into the light.
