![]() ![]() At 8 years old she becomes friends with a girl named Eva whose father is the famous painter Evan Trentham. The story is told from the perspective of Lily, an impressionable young girl living in Australia. The Italian Teacher was a We’ve Read This book club pick! Fortunately, this is where the similarities end for these two worthwhile (!) novels. Similar to that book, The Strays by Emily Bitto is about a young girl who gets caught up in the commune-like environment of a group of artists in the 1930s, all of them circling around a few famous painters in their midst. ![]() It also had a beautiful cover a collage of vibrantly coloured paints splashed onto a canvas. ![]() Last year, a book called The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman was released, it was all about a famous artist and the people who circled around him. ![]()
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