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|title=Pictures at an Exhibition

|author=Camilla Macpherson

|publisher=Arrow

|date=April 2012

|website=http://www.camillamacpherson.com/thenovel.html

|summary=Claire and Rob are watching their marriage crumble after a tragedy tears them apart. Can a tale from World War Two help them to reunite?

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A story designed around the display of individual paintings at the National Gallery during World War Two held immediate appeal for me. Alas, Claire and Rob, the central characters in the novel, did not. Claire’s extreme irrationality is jarring even within the context of the ordeal she has endured. Rob seems inconsiderate, clearly due to the barrage of irrationality he is having to live with on a daily basis. But while that is understandable, I did worry that I might be reading a novel that contained no likeable characters.