A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)

by Louise Penny

“I actually got better grades too. And I convinced myself it was the right choice. That it would be wrong to trade a career for a friend.” She looked up then, directly into Chief Inspector Gamache’s eyes. And noted, again, the deep scar by his temple. And the steady, thoughtful gaze. “It seemed a small sacrifice. Then came the student show. I had a few works in it, but Lillian didn’t. Instead she decided to write a piece for credit in the art criticism course she was taking. She wrote a review for the campus paper. In it she praised a few of the student pieces but savaged my works. Said they were vacuous, empty of all feeling. Safe.” Clara could still feel the quaking, the rumbling, volcanic fury. Their friendship had been blown to smithereens. No piece large enough to even examine. Impossible to mend. But what did rise from the rubble was a deep, deep enmity. A hatred. Mutual, it seemed.