The Peach Tree: reflections on art, loss and healing

The Peach Tree is a personal reflection on loss. It is also a story of a painter’s progressionover thirty years.Mandy Hoffman was widowed at the age of forty three, with two teenage boys and adaughter aged seven. In twelve brief chapters, she opens small windows onto her life beforeand after the bereavement.Her paintings chart a progression from the figurative landscapes of her childhood in Suffolkto a more interior, contemplative work.The book itself is a synopsis of sorts, of a life split in half by the sudden death of a spouse.Half of all profits from the sale of The Peach Tree will be donated to Gingerbread, the charity for single parent families.Mandy writes a regular blog on her facebook page- join the conversation at:facebook.com/ThePeachTree2025 Read more