Blood

'Though It's true there's a killing in my story, its principle violence is, I think I'd have to say, the violence of love' Blood red is the favourite hue of painter Norrie Blume, who at 36 wins a prestigious Larkin Fellowship at Radcliffe College. She's excited to leave her job as a commercial graphic designer and take up the artist's life. But she's also in the middle of an obsessive love affair with Michael, a married man, an affair that is threatening to consume both their lives. With her fellowship comes accommodation, an apartment in a college building, and it is here that she meets her neighbours - the far too intense Chilean journalist Clara and the beautiful, serene Indian poet Devi. Norrie finds Clara intrusive but is entranced by Devi, who she instinctively feels she has more in common with. But Clara is jealous of any other demands on Norrie's time. Having almost got used to deceiving people to cover her affair with Michael, Norrie is distressed that she's now having to tell more lies - to Clara about Devi and Devi about Michael. She's also beginning to find Clara's definition of friendship a little unnerving...
 
'Though It's true there's a killing in my story, its principle violence is, I think I'd have to say, the violence of love' Blood red is the favourite hue of painter Norrie Blume, who at 36 wins a prestigious Larkin Fellowship at Radcliffe College. She's excited to leave her job as a commercial graphic designer and take up the artist's life. But she's also in the middle of an obsessive love affair with Michael, a married man, an affair that is threatening to consume both their lives. With her fellowship comes accommodation, an apartment in a college building, and it is here that she meets her neighbours - the far too intense Chilean journalist Clara and the beautiful, serene Indian poet Devi. Norrie finds Clara intrusive but is entranced by Devi, who she instinctively feels she has more in common with. But Clara is jealous of any other demands on Norrie's time. Having almost got used to deceiving people to cover her affair with Michael, Norrie is distressed that she's now having to tell more lies - to Clara about Devi and Devi about Michael. She's also beginning to find Clara's definition of friendship a little unnerving...