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The Muse- Jessie Burton

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The Muse is a romantic drama revolving around a hidden tremendously talented artist, Olive Scholass. The story continuously shifts from the present day and almost three decades before. In 1967, Odelle, a migrator who came from the islands to London with her friend Cynth to find work aspired to become a writer. She was stuck in a shoe shop with minimum wage and a rotting ambition. One day, she received a job from an art museum, The Skeleton which changed her life forever. She meets a man at her friend’s wedding party who introduces her to his mother’s painting. The painting had such a striking presence to it that Odelle suggests him to get it to the Skelton. The year 1936, the Scholass family moves to the countryside of Spain. Harold Scholass, an art dealer is unaware that her daughter is one of the best artists one could ever see. Olive gets into the Slade School of Art but decides to not tell her parents. For some reason, she wants her talent to herself and the countryside sudde

The Woman In Cabin 10-Ruth Ware

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How wary it is to believe in a person, seen her, talked to her but the next day the person ceases to exist. No one has ever seen her or can remember her around you. It feels maddening to the extreme and then, you witness a murder. A murder no one believes in of a person who does not exist. Something similar happens to journalist Lo Blacklock on a business sea trip. This trip was meant to be the turning point of her career but accidentally she borrows mascara from the girl next door, which turned to be the biggest mistake she could ever make. In the middle of the night, she wakes up to a noise of splashing water like a body has been thrown into the water. As she looks through her glass door, on the window on the other side she notices blood smeared all over the glass. Frightened out of her wits, she calls the security shouting ‘bloody murder’. But when the security personnel tells her that no one ever checked into the room adjacent to her, she is terrified and confused. She tells him