Novel
The Shelterers
A novel that opens in Paris in April 1940, with Peggy Guggenheim collecting art as war approaches. An author’s note recalls Wilton Morley’s encounter with Samuel Beckett in a London theatre.
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Paris promises Lara Ivanov a new life. A career in fashion. A world of artists, writers and people who seem to have everything. But the one person she wants beside her is still beyond her reach. Her father, Sergei, has survived years in a Siberian prison camp. Now he and his friend Dimitri must find a way west. One wrong move could send them back. Meanwhile, the boy who once shared Lara's schoolroom is preparing to become André the Giant. Their lives are opening up, while the past closes in. A prisoner's last letter. A lost painting. Questions reaching from Moscow to Paris. In a world that can take everything, who will offer shelter? The Shelterers. A novel by Wilton Morley. Discover the story.
Family separation and ambitions in Paris interweave with a dangerous journey west and missing art.
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Paris, April 1940. Peggy Guggenheim leaves the Ritz and walks through a city that appears, on the surface, to be going about its ordinary life. Behind that calm are the headlines, the approach of war and questions about the future of her art collection.
The Shelterers begins with Peggy and Samuel Beckett in a hotel room before following her into the streets and the practical concerns of protecting art. In an introductory note, Wilton Morley recalls meeting Beckett while managing a small London theatre in 1978, an encounter that supplies a personal connection to one of the novel’s central historical figures. The book brings art, conversation and impending upheaval together in an opening that places private lives against a gathering public crisis.
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