I'm not sure why the cover and synopsis seem to imply that this book is aimed at kids and possibly even educational. Nothing about the text (other than shortness, I guess) struck me as either. It's odd and rather draft-like little novel about artist John Singer Sargent being drawn into the psychological and possibly supernatural problems of the Boit family he is hired to paint. I think I would have preferred Rees to make up his own entirely original characters rather than trying to write a fictional story using real people especially given his choice to make Mrs. Boit insane and and abusive.