""Dearest Gwen, I know this letter to you is an artifice. I know you are dead and that I'm alive and that no usual communication is possible between us but, as my mother used to say, 'Time is a strange substance' and who knows really, with our time-bound comprehension of the world, whether there might be some channel by which we can speak to each other, if we only knew how." Celia Paul's Letters to Gwen John centers on a series of letters addressed...

"Tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo"-- The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople who made their home in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle Époque high society. They were also targets of antisemitism, much like de Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered...