For fans of Amy Bloom's White Houses and Colm Tóibín's The Master a page-turning novel about
Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington and the art drama and romance that defined her
coming-of-age during World War II.London 1937: Leonora Carrington is a twenty-year-old on the
cusp of independence discovering her own creative powers as a painter when she falls into a
turbulent passionate love affair with Max Ernst a married artist twenty-six years older.
Determined to break free from her family's upper-class expectations she follows him to Paris
where she is thrust into the vibrant revolutionary world of studios and cafes where rising
visionaries of the Surrealist movement like Andre Breton Pablo Picasso Lee Miller Man Ray
and Salvador Dali are challenging conventional approaches to art and life. Inspired by their
freedom Leonora begins to experiment with her own work translating vivid stories of her youth
onto canvas and gaining recognition under her own name-until suddenly the shadow of war and
occupation begins to spread over Europe and headlines emerge denouncing Max and his circle as
degenerates.Forced to flee France Max and Leonora are separated but both begin remarkable
journeys that will shape them as artists and individuals. On the run from an internment camp
Max seeks the aid of Peggy Guggenheim who is helping artists escape from the Nazis while
Leonora once trapped in a Spanish asylum begins to claim her identity and unleash the quiet
inner power that will eventually make her one of the most influential women of our time.Based
on true events and historical figures Leonora in the Morning Light is an unforgettable story
of love art and destiny that restores a twentieth-century heroine to her rightful place.
