An American art student in 50s Paris finds herself commissioned to paint the portrait of a young Englishwoman. Both of them are trapped - and find in the hesitant beginnings of a relationship a way out. But the path of true love is thwarted by expectations of class and they separate...
The artwork is richly evocative of a scruffy Paris (and genteel England and artsy New York), and the characters range from clearly depicted to (deliberately comic) caricatures: Juliet and Deborah, the protagonists contrast brilliantly with the nasty English chaperone and the naked, smoking French guy, and Simon Gane's artwork is wonderfully central to the storytelling.
Andi Watson tells a story of loves lost and found that would not be out of place on a movie storyboard, and has twists enough to make you raise eyebrows in each episode. Who will get together with whom? When the protagonists part, will bit-part characters intervene? I was genuinely engrossed - and want to go back to Montmartre and draw...and draw... and love.