If discovered, the revelation of the forgery has the capacity to destroy Ellie’s career. By some strange twist, At the Edge of a Wood and the forgery of the painting are both headed to an art exhibition on which Ellie is working in Sydney. With an inciting incident, Smith brings the story forward to 2000. She creates the de Vos forgery both because she feels a kinship with Sara as a woman, but also because she feels anger at the way her sex impedes her desire to be an artist. Barent de Vos, Sara’s husband, cannot sell the depressing painting he works on after the little girl’s death, and Sara secretly works on At the Edge of a Wood to work through her own grief.Ĭenturies later, Ellie is a young woman who feels like an outsider in the academic art world of the 1950s. The girl’s death leads to financial ruin for the family. Back in the 17th century, Sara’s daughter dies of the plague.
Smith tells the story of how Sara came to create the painting and how Ellie creates the forgery.
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