AWAY - Scenes from the book seen with artists eyes...

Alfred Sisley: Dorfstrasse in Marlotte/ Frauen auf dem Weg zum Wald, 1866 Öl auf Leinwand 65 x 92 cm	"Brian O'Malley's cottage was situated some two miles east of Ballyvoy in the collection of dwellings that went by the name of Coolanlough" (p. 28).
Alfred Sisley: Herbst in Louveciennes, 1873 Öl auf Leinwand, 56 x 41 cm	"She would swim until cold and exertion caused her body to ache and her mouth to gasp. Then she would swim harder and he would begin to take shape. She would see his ribs in the sand ripples and something in the surf would begin to speak to her. 'Moira, Moira' "(p. 37).
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Francois-Auguste Briard, 1830 Öl auf Leinwand 27,5 x 22,5 cm	"Inside the not-so-picturesque ruins of Bunnamairge Friary one mile east of Ballycastle, side by side on camp-stools, sat Osbert and Granville Sedgewick, bachelor sons of Henry Augustin Sedgewick the Third. Osbert was making a watercolour of one of the Friary's few remaining arches, and Granville was composing his forty-third lament concerning the sorrows of Ireland" (p. 39).
Alfred Sisley Winter in Marly, Schnee, 1876 Öl auf Leinwand, 46 x 56,5 cm	"In truth, the white house nearly blinded the six-year-old boy. Although he had been in the new country for almost three months, it was, nevertheless, the first particle of the huge strangeness that he had allowed his gaze to rest upon. It shone in the Great Lake harbour like a lamp, brighter than the sun that lit it" (p. 136).
Alfred Sisley Straße in Veneux, 1883 Öl auf Leinwand 54,6 x 73,7 cm	"What with illness, quarantine, and then waiting out the winter freeze in Quebec it had taken the family a year to reach this spot" (pp. 139 f.).
Alfred Sisley Kastanienallee in der Celle-Saint-Cloud, 1867 Southampton Art Gallery Öl auf Leinwand, 95,5 x 122,2 cm	"Exodus returning after an autumn hunt with a sledge piled high with deer and rabbit had first seen the woman in the woods on the northwest shore of Chuncall Lake, which was now called Moira" (p. 177).
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Die Frau mit der Perle 1868 - 1870 Öl auf Leinwand 70 x 55 cm Louvre, Paris	"From between two sumac bushes there emerged a dark-skinned, blue-eyed girl, who looked directly into Eileen's face, threw her head back, and laughed out loud" (p. 271) "In the end Molly would successfully raise five children, four of whom were her own" (p. 303).
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Sinnendes Mädchen 1855 - 1860 Öl auf Leinwand 35 x 60 cm Hamburger Kunsthalle	"The girls talked everywhere: out on the jetty, sitting among the beach stones, walking through the woods or, if the weather was awful, as it often was, huddled inside the cluttered shanty. Only once did Molly search for information that Eileen did not willingly reveal. 'Do you have a sweetheart?' she enquired with uncharacteristic shyness" (p. 274).