The Artist

Joseph travels to interview Édouard Tartuffe and enters a household sustained by the largely unseen labour of the painter’s niece Ettie. As both younger characters pursue recognition, secrets about creation and control become harder to contain.

The Artist was written by Lucy Steeds. This page links its factual claims to the publisher or author source.

This is a standalone work and can be read without another book first.

The UK first-edition hardcover is ISBN 9781399819565. The current Hachette UK paperback has a different ISBN, and the US edition is published as The Artist and the Feast, so page count and metadata should always name the market and format.

Yes. Hachette’s US edition uses the title The Artist and the Feast. They are market titles for Lucy Steeds’s same novel, not a sequel.

Useful discussion topics include invisible creative labour, who receives credit for art, the ethics of artistic possession, the effect of post-war expectations, and how Ettie and Joseph interpret ambition differently.

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