Angelica, Paintress of Minds (Paperback)

"Miller's intricate fictions are lit by the dark flicker of a strong and original imagination." - Hilary Mantel

"The novel is beautifully written, with phrases like the young Angelica thinking"titles make a special shape in the air when people speak them, high and arched". Kauffmann is presented as hard-working, loyal, kind, sometimes susceptible but more determined than she thinks she is. She had to be, for hers was a man's world."- The Historical Novel Society

"Wonderfully rich material. Novelist Miranda Miller has made a swashbuckling drama out of it in what she calls a "fictionalised autobiography". There are some great set pieces when Miranda Miller brings together Angelica's experiences and some of the civic, military and social "events" of her time." - Camden Journal

"Miranda Miller's novel, a first-person account of the life of the 18th-century Swiss neoclassical painter Angelica Kauffman, faithfully reflects the career of the somewhat overlooked founding member of the Royal Academy... A fascinating life and a fine painter in what's a story well told by Miller."- Morning Star

"A richly imagined and authoritative portrait of a fascinating and important painter, and a woman who was one of the most famous people of her era. Miller explores Angelica's vivid and conflicted inner life with panache and passion."- Jean McNeil, author of The Ice Diaries