"Pixie". I like it. "Pixie Pamela". It's a good name for me: sometimes tiny and invisible.
Other times bouncing up to the ceiling to look down on everyone. It's the turn of the
twentieth century and Pamela 'Pixie' Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions:
plucky yet naïve artistically gifted despite lacking classical training fascinated by the
esoteric but sceptical of the world around her. After the deaths of her beloved mother and
her troubled but well-intentioned father Pixie finds herself in the complex political world
of fin-de-siècle art trying to get her stunning work seen and to forge a name and a path for
herself in life. Across Jamaica Devon London and Brooklyn Pixie is a novel of epic
proportions a tale of the twists and turns séances and secrets successes and devastation of
one young woman's talent grit and determination. In Pixie Whitbread and Orange
Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson renders the real-life figure of Pamela 'Pixie' Colman
Smith artist publisher and illustrator of the still-iconic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck in
arrestingly vivid detail breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable but has
until know eluded popular imagination.
