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This is a lovely slow burn of a book, I usually read fiction quickly but like most poetry this book refused to be hurried, It is rich with details about Paula ModersohnBecker and her life as an artist, It feels at times like a series of paintings that you could step into and the locations of Paris and particularly Worpswede are vividly portrayed, It also deals with the contemporary dilemmas of how as a woman you can make your way in the world as an artist and the competing demands of family and duty are ever present.


The voices in the book alternate between that of Mathilde, Paulas daughter in a fictionalised form and Paula, who died shortly after her daughter was born.
Sue Hubbard manages to pull off the trick of making it seem as though their stories are unfolding in the present as you read, rather than in the past.
Clearly the book is underpinned by an immense amount of research but you dont feel the weight of it in the writing,

As the John Berger quote on the back cover says it is a haunting book,
The fictionalised account of the life of a German impressionist painter in thes, battling misogyny to stay true to her art, Would have made a lovely novella but, atplus pages, it dragged, Girl in White is the extraordinary story of the German expressionist painter Paula ModershohnBecker, told from the fictionalised perspective of her daughter, Mathilde, Becker was a pioneer of modern art in Europe, but denounced as degenerate by the Nazis after her death Sue Hubbard draws on the artists diaries and paintings to bring to life her intense relationship with the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and her struggle to find a balance between being a painter, wife and mother.


“Beautifully written and wholly knowledgeable Girl in White is a triumph of literary and artistic understanding, a tour de force: masterly, moving, ”
Fay Weldon

“A writer of genuine talent, ”
Elaine Feinstein

Sue Hubbard is a novelist, poet and art critic, Her poem Eurydice is Londons largest public art poem, at Waterloo, She is a regular contributor to the Independent and the New Statesman, and runs Creative Writing workshops at the Royal College of Art, This is an imagined account of Paula ModersohnBecker, a German expressionist painter, who lived in the artist's community of Worpswede, but who also spent time in Paris.
Sadly Becker died at the age ofsoon after giving birth to a daughter,
Sue Hubbard is an art critic, poet and writer, She brings her poet's eye, as well as her knowledge of art history, to this account of Becker, Part of the book

is narrated by Becker's daughter, Matilde, The rest, written in the third person POV, is Paula's story,
I thought this was a wonderful book, which deserves to be more widely known, Women's lives have changed since the lateth century but many women will relate to the story of Paula's life as she struggles between her duties to family, and later her husband, and as she tries to make her way in the art world.
Hubbard brings Paula vividly to life her friendship with Clara, a sculptor, her marriage to Otto Modersohn another artist, her close relationship with the poet Rilke, how she is conflicted with the need to work and the need to be a 'good' person a mother, confidante and wife.
Sue Hubbard is a freelance art critic, novelist and poet, Twice winner of the London Writers competition she was the Poetry Societys first ever Public Art Poet, She was also commissioned by the Arts Council and the BFI to create Londons biggest art poem that leads from Waterloo to the IMAX, Her latest collection Ghost Station was published by Salt Publishing in, Depth of Field, her first novel, was published in, John Berger called it a “remarkable first novel, ” Sue is a regular contributor to The Independent and The New Statesman where she writes on contemporary art, Inshe was awarded a major Arts Council Literary Award, .