The Sense of Paper

A blend of art history, eroticism, and suspense, The Sense of Paper is an exploration of the role of paper in art and the sumptuous story of a woman living on the dangerous edge of obsession, passion, and murder.
One of the world's foremost living painters and an authority on England's great artist J. M. W. Turner, Sir Alan Matheson is also a notorious connoisseur of fine paper and of beautiful women. He is instantly intrigued by war correspondent Charlotte Hudson, who shares his fascination with the qualities and paradoxes of paper: its simplicity, its sensuality, its fragility, and its magical ability to absorb our most beautiful visions and our greatest suffering. As the pair pursue their passionate course of study, they will make a devastating discovery - one that will rip their lives apart as easily as one tears a sheet of paper.

Taylor Holden, as Wendy Holden, was a respected journalist for The Daily Telegraph, where she covered wars and events around the world, including Northern Ireland, the US, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. She has co-written several autobiographies of remarkable women, including Goldie Hawn's recent New York Times bestseller. She lives in Suffolk, England, with her husband and four dogs. This is her first novel.