We ladies of the Round Table are so excited to bring you our event for April…Claude & Camille by the lovely Stephanie Cowell! And what an event we have in store for you! Not only will we bring you our usual round of reviews, but we’ve also got 8 guest posts written by Stephanie Cowell, 8 chances to win your very own copy of Claude and Camille, a few informative and entertaining creative posts written by the Round Table ladies, a Q & A with author Stephanie Cowell AND loads of special giveaways to tempt your fancy!
Here is some information on Claude & Camille:
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“Sometimes he dreamt he held her; that he would turn in bed and she would be there. But she was gone and he was old. Nearly seventy. Only cool paint met his fingers. “Ma très chère . . .” Darkness started to fall, dimming the paintings. He felt the crumpled letter in his pocket. “I loved you so,” he said. “I never would have had it turn out as it did. You were with all of us when we began, you gave us courage. These gardens at Giverny are for you but I’m old and you’re forever young and will never see them. . . .”
In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father’s nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father’s will, and with nothing but a dream and an insatiable urge to create a new style of art that repudiated the Classical Realism of the time, he set off for Paris.
But once there he is confronted with obstacles: an art world that refused to validate his style, extreme poverty, and a war that led him away from his home and friends. But there were bright spots as well: his deep, enduring friendships with men named Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Manet – a group that together would come to be known as the Impressionists, and that supported each other through the difficult years. But even more illuminating was his lifelong love, Camille Doncieux, a beautiful, upper-class Parisian girl who threw away her privileged life to be by the side of the defiant painter and embrace the lively Bohemian life of their time.
His muse, his best friend, his passionate lover, and the mother to his two children, Camille stayed with Monet—and believed in his work—even as they lived in wretched rooms, were sometimes kicked out of those, and often suffered the indignities of destitution. She comforted him during his frequent emotional torments, even when he would leave her for long periods to go off on his own to paint in the countryside.
But Camille had her own demons – secrets that Monet could never penetrate, including one that when eventually revealed would pain him so deeply that he would never fully recover from its impact. For though Camille never once stopped loving the painter with her entire being, she was not immune to the loneliness that often came with being his partner.
A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order.
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
April 6 – Amy’s Book Review w/ Sponsored Giveaway at Passages to the Past, Author Guest Post “Growing Up To Write A Novel About Monet” w/ Sponsored Giveaway at The Burton Review, Arleigh’s Special Giveaway at Historical-Fiction.com.
April 7 – Heather’s Book Review at The Maiden’s Court, Author Guest Post “How Children Who Write Secretly May Grow Up To Be Novelists” at Hist Fic Chick, Amy’s Special Giveaway at Passages to the Past.
April 8 – Marie’s Review and Goodie Giveaway at The Burton Review, Author Guest Post “The Power of Historical Fiction” w/ Sponsored Giveaway at Historical-Fiction.com.
April 9 – Allie’s Book Review w/ Sponsored Giveaway at Hist Fic Chick, Author Guest Post “The Working Artist: From the Renaissance to Monet’s Water Lilies” at Enchanted by Josephine.
April 10 – Arleigh’s Book Review at Historical-Fiction.com, Author Guest Post “Writing Novels About Historical People” at Passages to the Past, “Searching for Camille” by Marie at The Burton Review, “Author Event: Stephanie Cowell, w/ Video from the Event” by Allie at Hist-Fic Chick, Sponsored Giveaway at The Maiden’s Court.
April 11 – Lucy’s Book Review at Enchanted By Josephine, Author Guest Post at Historically Obsessed, “Frederic Bazille – Medical Student by Day, Impressionist Painter by Night” at The Maiden’s Court.
April 12 – Author Guest Post “A Passion for Old Libraries” at All Things Royal, “Edouard Manet: Pre-Impressionist” at Historical-Fiction.com.
April 13 – Lizzy’s Book Review at Historically Obsessed, Author Guest Post “How Many Books Are On Your Night Table” at The Maiden’s Court, Author Interview with Stephanie Cowell at Passages to the Past.
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This art history major cannot wait!
We can’t wait to see you there Pricilla!
This sounds like such an interesting story. There is so much we don’t know about the lives of those whose work we admire.
I look forward to reading this book.
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Enjoyed reading about this book. I have added it to my TBR list. I like reading these kinds of stories.
“Claude and Camille” looks like a really lovely and entrancing story. I’ll add it to my burgeoning “to read” list!
Claude Monet is one of my favorite artists. I will enjoy reading more of his life and times. Thank you for sponsoring the giveaway
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