The Artist by Lucy Steeds audiobook review – a sensory feast in Provence

A reclusive artist is the reluctant subject of a journalist’s attention in a rich world of scents, scenery and secrets When a British journalist named Joseph Adelaide tracks down a reclusive artist to his remote farmhouse in the south of France, his plan is to interview him for a magazine profile. Edouard Tartuffe is a revered painter who was taught by Cézanne and is known on the Parisian art scene as the “Master of Light”. But then he retreated from the limelight amid rumours of a feud with ...

By Fiona Sturges