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12. Blue Circle ***** Jeannie and Theo are married and are both young struggling artists. Jeannie does something drastic that promotes Theo’s career and not her own. He becomes a breakthrough success. She leaves him for a life of teaching. After Theo’s death, she is interviewed about his early works and she makes a surprising discovery.

I’d read Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color the previous winter and was so taken by his ideas that I’d copied out quotes and pinned them above my work table:
Art is not an object, but experience.
It is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.
A thing is never seen as it really is.

11. Light Tricks **** Susie, who is feeling unmotivated about her academic work, and Arthur, a widowed train driver, come together through a tragic incident on a railway line.

10. The Hunt **** Hugh is currently having an affair with Gudrun which he thinks he is hiding from his wife Jenny. While at an annual pheasant hunt at the island where his in-laws live, he may have a rude awakening. Takes an odd diversion into the history of Catherine de Medici.

9. Flip **** Budding young magician Aiden meets Willow while they are both working as carnies. Willow appears to have an uncanny ability to win at games of chance or coin tosses.

8. Clairvoyance *** Husband August is disturbed when his wife Helene appears to be starting a cult with her old school mate Emmi, whom they meet while Helene was recuperating from illness.

August hardly noticed his wife’s burgeoning interest in what she began to call “the realm of the spirit.” A quantity of books with peculiar titles appeared in her room. How to Know Higher Worlds, The Secret Doctrine, The Voice of the Silence, Man, Visible and Invisible. Had Emmi suggested such subjects?

[these are real books, I'll link to them in my full review (not enough space here]

7. Our Lady of the Moonlight **** School teacher Cecily Dillon has gone to live in a small community where an apparent vision of the Virgin Mary was seen. She eagerly looks for her own vision to appear. She meets Nora a young girl who is to play the Virgin Mary in the school Christmas pageant.

6. Wild Food ***** Sebastian and Emily are having a dinner party with foods that were partially foraged by Emily. There is concern that some of the mushrooms may be poisonous. Sebastian is meanwhile flirting under the table with Monique, one of the guests at the meal.

“Wild mushrooms,” Emily smiled. “There’s such a great selection of fungi at this time of year – chanterelles, puffballs, meadow mushrooms, boletes – I was actually foraging a few days ago.”
“These mushrooms?” asked Christopher. “You picked them yourself?”
He looked a bit worried.