Title: Eileen McHugh - a life remade
Description: Eileen McHugh - a life remade - is a novel about a sculptor whose creative life ended in the 1970s. She left no work, but now an archive of her notes and sketches has come into the possession of Mary Reynolds, who is determined to resurrect the artist's life and reconstruct her work. She contacts people who knew Eileen as a child and as a student in London. She follows the artist on a hippie trip to Thailand. Via these partial memories, she recreates the artist and her work.
Subjects: fiction art, sculpture, contemporary, london, thailand, hippie, student, conceptual art, biography
Places: London, Chaiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Thailand, New York, New Jersey
Time periods: 1970-72 twentieth century england