In this fine and beautifully judged collection Barbara Dordi shows us that she stands lightly on the soft and fragile ground between visual art and the written word, holding the moving world still (as in The Weald in Winter) or taking the frozen moment and calling it into life (as in Miss Jekyll's gardening boots). She shows us the art in Eden Revisited and the artist in Le Flaneur de Montmartre, and now and then uses a separate voice to bridge the space between the two, as when Little Marie Cleans Cezanne's Atelier. Barbara Dordi edits the long-established magazine Equinox and the more recently became editor of French Literary Review. She lives in France."