Knowledge of Water

"Although not entirely successful at integrating [the] separate story lines into her dense plot, Ms. Smith has written a lushly erotic, feminist study of artists and lovers and killers swept up in their obsessive passions. An exquisite stylist, she observes her characters in the most intimate detail, defining them with witty precision and placing them in a rain-drenched portrait of Edwardian Paris that could hang in the Louvre.Smith, Sarah is the author of 'Knowledge of Water' with ISBN 9780345439468 and ISBN 0345439465.