Painting Out Oscar by Nina Dufort
When Oscar walks out on her, Bea is shocked but surprisingly unworried. At last she can concentrate on her first love, painting, and she moves to her aunt's isolated cottage on the Kent coast. But friends and family won't leave her alone, and her social life takes a decided upward turn, including meeting the romantic Irish geologist Francis (Nut) Nutmeg. When Oscar discovers his new love is an alcoholic, and thinks he might return to the marital home, he discovers it's too late: Bea has fulfilled her long-held ambition and is about to have her first private view - and she's also pregnant with Nut's baby.
PAINTING OUT OSCAR 'Painting Out Oscar by Nina Dufort is full of gentle irony' Vanessa Berridge, Voted one of Woman & Home best reads of the month (June 1999) 'Deft, polished, very classy piece of romantic fiction by Kent artist turned writer ... Tone amused and amusing, style confident and elegant, art expertise naturally evident, and a great ear for dialogue. [...] it is a most enjoyable novel with a romantic theme and a great pleasure to read.' Roderick Cooper, Kent Life (March '99) DEFROSTING EDMUND: 'Gripping, elegant, sharply funny ... Nina Dufort has written a stunning first novel and I wolfed it down like a box of Belgian truffles' JOANNA LUMLEY 'In her first novel, Nina Dufort has achieved a gripping and sharply funny tale' Prizes Galore 'Funny and perceptive ... hard to put down' Home & Country Magazine 'She does [it] with great aplomb' Woman & Home 'a lively, romantic novel full of wry wit and sparkling characters' Prima 'A charming first novel of some note ... A lovely warm read' Portsmouth News 'A beguiling romance' Marie Claire 'Painting Out Oscar by Nina Dufort is full of gentle irony.' -- Vanessa Berridge, Woman & Home 'The charm of Dufort's companionable novel lies in the detail. The author conjures up the washed-out blue of the Kentish marshes with enjoyment.' -- Independent 'In her first novel, Nina Dufort has achieved a gripping and sharply funny tale' -- Prizes Galore '[F]unny, perceptive ... hard to put down' -- Home & Country 'A lively, romantic novel full of wry wit and sparkling characters' -- Prima 'Her terrific talent for close observation of the behaviour of family and friends and men in particular makes this book a very entertaining read ... Sharply funny and perceptive' -- Kent Messenger
Nina Dufort has worked as a junk dealer, a theatrical dresser and a gofer in an avant-garde art gallery amongst other things. She is a successful painter, who sells her work through the Portal and the Rye Art Galleries, and lives with her husband in an old rectory in Kent..
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| ISBN 13 | 9780340716830 |
| ISBN 10 | 0340716835 |
| Title | Painting Out Oscar |
| Author | Nina Dufort |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Year published | 1999-10-21 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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