Emily Rhodes

Seeing and being seen: Wet Paint, by Chloë Ashby, reviewed

When Eve gets work as an artists’ model and barmaid, her life begins to mirror her favourite picture – Manet’s ‘A Bar at the Folies-Bergère’

Chloë Ashby. [Sophie Davidson]
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  • Wet Paint

    Chloë Ashby

    Trapeze, pp. 336, £14

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