The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray
Canadian | CBC Books | | Posted: June 10, 2019 7:10 PM | Last Updated: June 11, 2019
E. Latimer
Bryony Gray is becoming famous as a painter in London art circles. But life isn't so grand. Her uncle keeps her locked in the attic, forcing her to paint for his rich clients... and now her paintings are taking on a life of their own, and customers are going missing under mysterious circumstances.
When her newest painting escapes the canvas and rampages through the streets of London, Bryony digs into her family history, discovering some rather scandalous secrets her uncle has been keeping, including a deadly curse she's inherited from her missing father. Bryony has accidentally unleashed the Gray family curse, and it's spreading fast.
With a little help from the strange-but-beautiful girl next door and her paranoid brother, Bryony sets out to break the curse, dodging bloodthirsty paintings, angry mobs and her wicked uncle along the way. (From Tundra Books)
When her newest painting escapes the canvas and rampages through the streets of London, Bryony digs into her family history, discovering some rather scandalous secrets her uncle has been keeping, including a deadly curse she's inherited from her missing father. Bryony has accidentally unleashed the Gray family curse, and it's spreading fast.
With a little help from the strange-but-beautiful girl next door and her paranoid brother, Bryony sets out to break the curse, dodging bloodthirsty paintings, angry mobs and her wicked uncle along the way. (From Tundra Books)
From the book
Lady Priscilla Dashworth liked to collect beautiful things.
She had, lining the corridors of her grand old mansion in the countryside, exactly 52 bottles of cut glass, twenty-one chunks of crystal cut into the shapes of various farm animals and nineteen Persian rugs that set off the wallpaper just right.
But the pride and joy of her collection of collections was what she found the most beautiful of all: herself. That is to say, Priscilla Dashworth collected portraits of herself. Large portraits that took up entire walls; miniature portraits with exquisite details that could only be seen under a microscope; black-and-white charcoal masterpieces; and careful oil paintings with delicate strokes. She even had a series of paintings that portrayed her as various mystical creatures — mermaids and dryads and things of a scandalous nature.
From The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray by E. Latimer ©2018. Published by Tundra Books.