[These women] were smart, passionate, willful, adventurous and striking-looking.... Lucey's prose is invitingly conversational and quick-flowing. -- The Washington Post It [Sargent's Women] tells of an era long gone yet still fascinating. -- Choice As rich as [Sargent's] portraits are, the textural evidence in which Ms. Lucey ensnares them is finer still. -- The Wall Street Journal [Lucey pieces together] lost stories, and the stormy brew of scandal and repression that affected these women-and Sargent himself. -- Elle Straight from the pages of a novel by Edith Wharton or Henry James. -- The Times Ingenious. -- Frances Wilson - Times Literary Supplement