The Art Collector's Wife

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Coming of Age, Women's Adventure, Family Saga, Historical, Debut, and Novels

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Oct 21, 2025

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The Art Collector's Wife

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Blurb

Is going back to the past the only way forward?

In 1962 Venice, Italy, seventeen-year-old Isabel is shoplifting and skipping class until she discovers a fantastical secret about her Holocaust survivor grandmother Lila: she has stashed away a collection of Renaissance Art. To be fair, it's not a complete surprise: Lila is secretive about the war and that dreadful time before when the whole living world came to a standstill. More than anything else, Isabel longs to know about her mother and father who perished.

THE ART COLLECTOR'S WIFE is a story that travels across the canals of Venice all the way to the catacombs of Paris in search of a family's truth.

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Genres

Coming of Age, Women's Adventure, Family Saga, Historical, Debut, and Novels

Type of Ending

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Not part of a series

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Publication Date

Oct 21, 2025

Page Length

259 pages

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Author

THE ART COLLECTOR'S WIFE won a Gold Book Award from Literary Titan and was shortlisted for The Santa Fe Writing Project's 2023 Literary Awards Program. The novel reached the Scouting Programme at Cornerstones Literary Consultancy in London. Susan Knecht's narrative non-fiction was published in the Write On Mamas Anthology, and her short story THE HIJAB in THE GOOD REVIEW literary journal. She completed the two-year Online Novel Writing Certificate Program at Stanford University. Formerly a practicing psychotherapist in Northern California, Susan Knecht currently has a private therapy practice in Amsterdam. As a second-generation Holocaust survivor, she is keenly aware of the issues of exile, loss and the psychological devastation caused by being ‘othered.’ THE ART COLLECTOR'S WIFE is her first novel.

Publisher

Sea Crow Press