Another book told across 2 timeframes, 1967 London and 1936 southern Spain. In 1967 Odelle, a recent immigrant from the Caribbean, is employed at an art gallery. While in 1936 Olive Schloss is realising her artistic potential. Olive is an amazing artist, but her art dealer father doesn’t think that women can be artists. Olive convinces the brother of their maid to pretend to be the artist. Olive sees this as a joke on her father when the paintings sell for a lot of money. The brother is very uncomfortable with this arrangement. It seems that Olive does not need the recognition, she just needs to paint. So long as she thinks the paintings are good she doesn’t really need others to agree. Both Olive and her mother are sleeping with this brother. As the civil war starts the maid ends up causing the deaths of her brother and Olive. She then travels to London with Olive’s parents and starts a new life. In 1967 a painting by Olive resurfaces, under the ownership of a young man who falls in love with Odelle. Odelle is a writer who has stopped writing and isn’t getting published. Her boss at the gallery publishes her writing for her. There is then a mystery surrounding who the boss is and how the young man got the painting.