Title: The music lesson
Description: The diary of a New York art historian as she keeps company a Vermeer painting, being held by the IRA for ransom. Alone in her lover's cottage in Ireland, Patricia Dolan admires the woman on canvas. "She's beautiful," she writes. By the author of Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear.
Subjects: Fiction, Art thefts, Irish Republican Army, Women art historians, Appreciation, Irish Republican Army in fiction, Art thefts in fiction, Vermeer, Johannes, in fiction, Women art historians in fiction, Self-realization, Ireland, fiction, Fiction, romance, contemporary
Places: United States
People: Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)