Painted Ladies

Mackintosh Sisters #2

by Frances Paige

Three sisters face the joys and trials of marriage and children in the fast changing world of the 1950s and 1960s. Anna's marriage to the talented Ritchie Laidlaw seems doomed and she has to face the reality of her own approaching middle-age.

384 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Frances Paige has lived near the Lake District, in the North West England for many years. She paints and writes, and has completed over fourty novels. She is also known under the pseudonyms Jane Wallace and Jay Allerton. In 1975, her novel "Vote for a Silk Gown" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She went on to write many more novels as well as a Scottish saga which, it has been said, redefined the sub-genre and made her a model for budding authors everywhere.

Reviews

[Joyce McCombs · Rating 5 out of 5]

Paris, ballet, a poor family, talented daughters, and societal shifts all combine to make a richly detailed, lush novel I couldn't put down. I'll be reading it again for our Junction Readers book club selection in February 2015.