Authenticity by Deidre Madden

This is a very accomplished novel abour artists, about relationships, about
life generally, but perhaps most of all an examination of the dynamics of
both loss and redemption, what may be redeemed and what may not be.
Roderic, a middle-aged abstract painter successful in his work but at the
cost of his family life and his personal equilibrium meets Julia a
struggling young artist twenty years his junior, who also becomes
strangely attached to a wealthhy businessman in need of her help. The
story ranges across the lives of these three intermeshed characters for all
of whom art and the artistic passion is central and family relationships
are complex.