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Alison Booth was born in Melbourne, brought up in Sydney and has worked in the UK and in Australia as a professor as well as a novelist. Alison's work has been translated into French and has also been published by Reader's Digest Select Editions in both Asia and Europe. Alison, who holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics, is an active public speaker and has participated in many writers' festivals and literary events. www.alisonbooth.net and www.facebook.com/AlisonBoothAuthor
'Deceptively simple, deeply human, The Painting lights the shadows of dispossession in Hungarian immigrant lives in Australia through art and romance, meat and menace, totalitarianism, provenance and pest.';'An enthralling and intelligently-plotted novel whose lead characters are drawn with such depth they could be sitting on the sofa beside you. Their lives are movingly woven together by the painting that means something quite different to each of them.';'The Painting by Alison Booth offers a compelling and incisive portrait of Anika - a wise and wary exile from an oppressive regime - as she struggles to regain her trust in humanity.'; Michelle Wildgen, author of Bread and Butter
