GIRL IN WHITE

Girl in White, is the extraordinary and moving story of Paula Modersohn-Becker told from the fictionalised perspective of her daughter Mathilde. Denounced as degenerate by the Nazis, after her death, Sue Hubbard has drawn on Becker's diaries and paintings to bring to life the artist's intense relationship with the poet Rilke and her struggle to find a balance between being a painter, wife and mother. Beautifully observed and evocative the novel is as satisfying as it is compelling.

As well as being a novelist Sue is a poet an art critic, hence her interest in the subject. I would have thought this is the sort of novel that would be of interest to German readers, possibly for an obvious house that specialises in this sort of literary work, but maybe I am underestimating the potential. I do not believe it has ever been submitted in Germany. There is obviously also always a lot of interest in the work of female artists that has been overlooked and belittled in the past by the male establishment.