In The Blue House
Moves gracefully through the private histories of love, despair and deception…brimming with energy and conviction.
— Literary Review
Brilliantly reconstructs the atmosphere of Trotsky’s house, his circle of friends and, in particular, the place of artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in his entourage…compelling.
— Sunday Business Post
The central imagined relationship, between Trotsky and Kahlo is conveyed with power and intimacy…but In the Blue House is more than an imaginary love affair, it also records the relationship between a young Australian political activist and her Party figurehead, more than fifty years after his death.
— The Scotsman
Reading this novel is like peering into a kaleidoscope…the writing is vibrant and vivid…illuminated by flashes of brilliance.
— Sunday Telegraph
Hounded from country to country by Stalin’s agents, Leon Trotsky finally finds refuge in Mexico as the guest of the artist Diego Rivera and his wife Frida Kahlo. But the extraordinary years spent in Frida’s beloved family home, The Casa Azul, prove also to be his last. The passions and betrayals of Trotsky’s final years in Mexico are unravelled, revealing too a panorama of Russian history during the first half of the twentieth century. As personal and confiding as a whisper In The Blue House reverberates with the momentous words and voices of history.
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