The Sunlit Pool of the Finished Image: A Feminist Reclamation of the Most Notorious Painting Ever Produced

This novel seeks to give Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du Monde a voice from under the male gaze. This story, using the voices of women who were exploited as models, sheds a new light on how society, look at images which have been canonized as unimpeachable. Long listed for the Bridport Prize 2023.