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A sensuous and vivid story of love, art and identity for fans of The Artist
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Victoria Redel masterfully evokes the rich period of Golden Age Amsterdam. It is spellbinding, wonderfully atmospheric, and impossible to forget — Sarah Jessica Parker, 2025 Booker Prize Judge. At eight years old, Gerta Pieters is forced to disguise herself as a boy and sent to work...
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A mesmerising historical novel, I Am You is a meditation on gender, an ode to artistic creation, and an unforgettable love story that reimagines the life of renowned still life painter Maria van Oosterwijck during the Dutch Golden Age.
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Victoria Redel masterfully evokes the rich period of Golden Age Amsterdam. It is spellbinding, wonderfully atmospheric, and impossible to forget — Sarah Jessica Parker, 2025 Booker Prize Judge.
At eight years old, Gerta Pieters is forced to disguise herself as a boy and sent to work for a genteel family. When their brilliant and beautiful daughter, Maria, sees through Gerta's ruse, she insists Gerta accompany her to Amsterdam and help her enter the elite, male-dominated art world.
While Maria rises in the ranks of society as a painting prodigy, Gerta makes herself invaluable in every way: confidante, muse, lover. But as Gerta steps into her own talents, their relationship fractures into a complex web of obsession and rivalry, until the secrets they keep threaten to unravel everything.
A true stand out... With echoes of Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep, I Am You is earthy and fleshy and pulsates with suppressed emotions of rage, envy and desire. A wonder of a novel — Elizabeth Fremantle, bestselling author of Firebrand.
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ISBN: 9781918107074
Publisher: Firefinch Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Firefinch Publishing
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Victoria Redel has written four books of poetry, most recently Paradise; her last novel, Before Everything, was published in 2017. Her short stories, poetry and essays have appeared in Granto, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Bomb, One Story, Salmagundi, 0, and NOON among many others. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center. She is a professor in the graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.
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