{"product_id":"9781408713228-molly-the-captain-a-gripping-mystery-observer","title":"Molly \u0026 the Captain: 'A gripping mystery' Observer","description":"A celebrated artist of the Georgian era paints his two young daughters at the family home in Bath. The portrait, known as \"Molly \u0026amp;the Captain\", becomes instantly famous, its fate destined to echo down the centuries, touching many lives. In the summer of 1889 a young man sits painting a line of elms in Kensington Gardens. One day he glimpses a mother at play with her two daughters and decides to include them in his picture. From that moment he is haunted by dreams that seem to foreshadow his doom. A century later, in Kentish Town, a painter and her grown-up daughters receive news of an ancestor linking them to the long-vanished double portrait of \"Molly \u0026amp;the Captain\". Meanwhile friendship with a young musician stirs unexpected passions and threatens to tear the family apart. Molly \u0026amp; the Captain  is a story about time and art and love. Through the prism of a single painting it examines the mysteries of creativity, and the ambiguous nature of success. What weighs more, loyalty to one's talent or loyalty to one's blood? Does self-sacrifice ennoble the soul or degrade it? And what does it mean to speak of the past when its hold on the present is inescapable? Through Anthony Quinn's signature gifts - period subtlety, intricate characterisation and storytelling verve this triptych novel melds three families and three centuries into a single vision of human frailty and longing.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48273170202843,"sku":"9781408713228","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b780fa2a-17ad-4e71-8f17-3f435ac6976e.jpg?v=1771297011","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781408713228-molly-the-captain-a-gripping-mystery-observer","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}