A Perfect Square

Across two continents two mothers and daughters are bound by a dark mystery.On a winter’s day in the Dandenong Ranges of Australia pianist Ginny returns home to her eccentric mother Harriet trying to find out the truth about her father’s disappearance. In an effort to distract her daughter’s interrogations Harriet proposes they collaborate on an exhibition of paintings and songs.Meanwhile on the edge of Dartmoor artist Judith paints landscapes of the Australian Outback to soothe her troubled heart as her wayward daughter Madeleine returns home... and fills the house with darkness.Brimming with mystery and intrigue A Perfect Square is a beautiful and redemptive novel about mothers and their daughters and the creative process that binds them.“A Perfect Square is a fine novel about the power of art to heal and to disturb.”- David Whish Wilson Zero at the BoneSimilar to Kandinsky’s brush that flawlessly moves from concrete to abstract and from material to spiritual the novel delicately blends family romance art history esoteric theories and human drama as it traces the main protagonist’s search for her father that imperceptibly becomes the search for wisdom and transcendence. - Vladimir Golstein Professor of Russian literature Brown University NY