When you look at a painting, what do you really see?When eighteenth-century poet Alison Cockburn accepts a light-hearted challenge from her friend Katherine Hume to live as a man, in order to infiltrate Edinburgh’s all-male skating club, little do they both realise how her new identity will shape their future.And in the present, art historian Claire Sharp receives a mysterious request: to settle once and for all the true provenance of the iconic painting The Skating Minister.The Edinburgh Skating Club is the tale of one woman''s mission to infiltrate a male-dominated society.

Imaginative, romantic and ultimately moving, this time-shift adventure celebrates the women overlooked by history – and, above all, love, in all its unexpected forms.


Format Häftad Omfång 320 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Birlinn General Utgivningsdatum 2022-08-04 ISBN 9781846975950