The Edinburgh Skating Club — Michelle Sloan

<h3><strong>When you look at a painting, what do you really see?</strong></h3> <p>When eighteenth-century poet Alison Cockburn accepts a light-hearted challenge from her friend Katherine Hume to live as a man, in order to infiltrate Edinburgh's all-male skating club, little do they both realise how her new identity will shape their future.</p> <p>And in the present, art historian Claire Sharp receives a mysterious request: to settle once and for all the true provenance of the iconic painting <em>The Skating Minister</em>.</p> <p><em>The Edinburgh Skating Club</em> is the tale of one woman's mission to infiltrate a male-dominated society. Imaginative, romantic and ultimately moving, this time-shift adventure celebrates the women overlooked by history â€" and, above all, love, in all its unexpected forms.</p>