Whitney Scharer.s storytelling is utterly immersive and gorgeous in its details, transporting you into Lee Miller.s life, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a man.s world. This is a powerful, sensual and gripping portrait of the forging of an artist.s soul. (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe)
An extraordinary young woman discovers love and art and betrayal among the artists of 1930s Paris and documents the horrors of war through her singular camera lens. An uplifting, heartbreaking and altogether immersive read. (Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Before The War and Major Pettigrew.s Last Stand)
When I first read The Age of Light, I thought it might have been written expressly for me, since it has everything I love in it: photography, sex, love, war, 1920s Paris, a relationship struggle between two artists, a woman.s journey from model to photographer, and the most exquisite writing. Then I realized: this magnetic, addictive novel will beguile every reader. Read it, read it! (Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family)
A masterpiece, The Age of Light is a searing, evocative novel of love and war, and a woman's fierce determination to transcend her role as muse and remake the world through her own art. Whitney Scharer is a remarkably gifted storyteller - a major new voice in historical fiction. (Dawn Tripp, author of Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keefe )
