Publication
Picador (2002), 256 pages
Collections
Awards
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Nominee — 2000)
Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (Winner — 2000)
Content and Summary Info
Bisexual Content: Two main characters (cisgender women) have/have had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.
Publisher's Summary: Inspired by the photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron, Afterimage is a provocative, passionate, yet delicate Victorian novel. When the young Irish maid Annie Phelan arrives at the country home of Isobelle and Eldon Dashell, she is swept into a world of artistic ambitions and hidden passions. But she also discovers a marriage that has grown distant and two people who see her as a blank slate upon which to project their own desires and failed dreams. Jealousy, longing and sensuality intertwine in this mesmerizing novel of aesthetic obsession and unfulfilled dreams.