Another unbearable Cambridge winter is closing in when a brochure advertising free emigration to Australia slides through Henry and Charlotte’s mail slot. They never do, and Henry is left to wonder who he is and where he belongs. She promises she and his father will soon follow. Her daughter, Lucie, is still nursing when Charlotte becomes pregnant again, and Henry, her husband, wonders if a mother can be sent mad by her child.īorn in India in 1934 to an English father, Henry is sent to England at the age of eleven by his Hindu mother, who fears for her mixed-race child’s future. When she does stand before a canvas, her mind goes blank. Despite a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, in 1963 Charlotte rarely has time to paint. Becoming a first-time mother can be difficult, especially with a fussy baby.
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