My grandmother was a painter and my mother a photographer. Can you tell us something about your background in the world of art? You present remarkable critical insight and knowledge of art, art history, and the mechanics of painting. Painting is at the heart of THE WITCH OF PAINTED SORROWS, from beginning to end. You have a passion for art, with roots going back to your formative years when you haunted New York’s greatest museums. Rose to discuss her career and her latest novel, the gripping and luxuriant THE WITCH OF PAINTED SORROWS. But an ancestral malevolence lurks in the walls of her grandmother’s mansion. She resolves never to return to the life she left behind. Here, Sandrine discovers her own burning passions and a promising new life as a painter studying at the École des Beaux-Arts. When her husband betrays her father and drives him to suicide, Sandrine flees secretly to Paris, where she enters her grandmother’s world, a demimonde of courtesans and their wealthy patrons. And though she enjoys wealth, social position, and a profound, spiritual bond with her adoring father, her marriage is passionless. Sandrine Salome is the wife of a New York banker. An opulent tale of destiny and reinvention, relentless passion and cabalistic mysticism, of love lost and the pursuit to regain it across death and the ages, THE WITCH OF PAINTED SORROWS is set against the backdrop of Belle Époque Paris. Her latest novel, THE WITCH OF PAINTED SORROWS, is the first book of a new trilogy from Atria Books/Simon & Schuster: The Daughters of La Lune. Rose is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels, including the Butterfield Institute and Reincarnationist series.
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