‘Sophie Haydock delivers another sizzling story of the art world, where sidelined women take centre stage. It’s an immersive tale of muses, betrayal, sex and bad behaviour’

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View fullsize One week ago, I took on the Chicago Marathon and what an incredible experience it was! 🎉 The atmosphere was absolutely electric, and Chicago, what a city to run in! I hit the wall with way too many miles still to go 😅, but I crossed the finish li
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View fullsize 📢📢 Madame Matisse proofs have arrived! 📢📢 INCREDIBLE cover design by @andrewdavis_designs 👏 Big thanks to @doubledayukbooks #penguinrandomhouse #madamematisse #henrimatisse #historicalfiction #matisse #novel #writersofinstagram 🌺🌺🌺
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View fullsize This is the story of three women - one an orphan and refugee who finds a place in the studio of a famous French artist, the other a wife and mother who has stood by her husband for nearly forty years. The third is his daughter, caught in the crossfir
View fullsize And this is Amélie Matisse, Henri’s wife of forty years, who went on to deliver an ultimatum to her husband that exploded the lives of everyone involved… Madame Matisse will be published March 2025 🌷 #madamematisse #henrimatis
View fullsize Copy edits are now complete! ✔️ Proofs are being prepared 📖 Book two will be out in 2025! 🙌 In it you’ll meet Lydia Delectorskaya, who changed the course of Henri Matisse’s life and art ✨
View fullsize Folkestone friends! Our first round of authors have been announced for the Folkestone Book Festival 2024📖 As the new curator, I’m so excited to welcome so many brilliant authors to our seaside town in November 🌊 David Nicholls, Tracy Cheva
View fullsize My short story Mudlarks will be broadcast live today at 3:45pm on BBC Radio 4, and available to listen to afterwards on BBC Sounds 📻 👂 🎧 Set on the River Thames, it’s about what it’s possible to find and what may be lost along the wa
View fullsize The train strikes yesterday meant I was stranded in Devon, after doing a guest tutor session at ⁦⁦Arvon’s Totleigh Barton on Wednesday evening. For a writer, there couldn’t be a better place to be stuck for 24 hours! Thank you to @maryel
View fullsize What an image ✨ Simone de Beauvoir, the French feminist critic, naked in the bathroom, photographed by Art Shay. The author of Le Deuxième Sexe was famously in a life-long relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, and here we see her age 44, nude,
View fullsize How will I ever get any writing done again with these two to distract me 😩 Meet our new kittens: Moss and Mud ✨🙌✨
View fullsize The incredible French artist Francoise Gilot died yesterday, aged 101. I adored her book, The Woman Who Says No, about her very turbulent decade-long relationship with Picasso - who was forty years older than her, and with whom she had two children