If Only

by Winifred Elze

Overview

A child of the great depression, Tilde Becker knows hardship and turns it into art. Against the odds, she has graduated from high school, found studio space in New York’s exciting Greenwich Village -- and she’s in love.
But her paintings aren’t selling. To support herself, she gets hired as a painter’s assistant in a government arts project. The painter’s job is to design murals of historic scenes. He paints the portraits; she paints the background trees, water, and sky. It’s art, but it’s not hers.
If only people had money to buy her paintings...
If only there were light and time at the end of her work day...
If only she could paint the world she wants, and make it so...
If only...

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013985070
Publisher:	Winifred Warlock
Publication date:	02/24/2012
Series:	Tilde , #2
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	374
File size:	242 KB

About the Author

Winifred Elze is a fiction writer working at the crossroads of realism and fantasy.
Her first novel, The Changeling Garden, told of plant life with a mind -- and a will -- of it’s own. Library Journal described it as mixing “horror with gentle humor” and “delightful fantasy.”
In Here, Kitty, Kitty, a domestic cat finds her way through a portal in time to the end of the Ice Age, and sabertooth cats and wooly mammoths flee to the present day Adirondacks. Booklist called it “A diverting and intelligent fantasy novel.”
The Borgia Prince is a murder mystery set in a Schenectady theatre. On the opening night of a play about a family of poisoners, reality and fantasy intersect when someone in the theatre is poisoned. The Albany Enquirer called it “a book that one had no trouble spending the evening with, especially for those who love the theater and the mysteries it often conjures.”
Tilde and If Only are the first two novels in a series about the development of an artist. They form a fictional biography of a bipolar artist growing up during the Great Depression and beginning her professional life in the years leading up to World War II. In the books to come, hard realities will intersect with the alternate realities her mind creates as we follow her through the developments of her life and career.