{"product_id":"9781910065600","title":"Lucky to Be an Artist","description":"\u003cbr\u003eStanley Spencer’s 1937 painting of his wife and daughter, \u003ci\u003eHilda, Unity, and Dolls\u003c\/i\u003e is famous both as a painting and as the complicated public face of a difficult, even unpleasant family story. A few years before, Spencer had left his wife Hilda and daughter Unity for a new lover, a painter whom he would go on to marry—and eventually learn was a fraud. \u003ci\u003eHilda, Unity, and Dolls\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the women he had left behind, more or less at the moment when Hilda rejected reconciliation.\u003cp\u003eThis book tells that story—and much, much more—from Unity’s perspective. An engaging, moving, and surprisingly light-hearted account of a life that had its share of sorrow, \u003ci\u003eLucky to Be an Artist\u003c\/i\u003e is an account of an unconventional family and the birth of an artist, as well as the tale of a woman who refused to be held back by early trauma and insisted on forging her own artistic path. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unicorn Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033406783728,"sku":"9781910065600","price":41.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781910065600_p0.jpg?v=1763626587","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781910065600","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}