Frida: The award-winning novel about the colourful and captivating life of Frida Kahlo
Claire Berest
Apr 2026 · Mountain Leopard Press · Narrated by Pilar Orti
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'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle
'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this' Grazia
'Like wandering through a painting - riotous with colour, overflowing with imagery... it captures something of Frida herself that feels totally right' Emily Howes, author of The Painter's Daughters
WINNER OF ELLE FRANCE'S GRAND PRIX DES LECTRICES.
Perfect for fans of The Artist, The Safekeep, Tracy Chevalier and Ali Smith.
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This is the story of Diego and Frida, who couldn't live without each other.
They meet at a party. She knows everything about him, about his mythology, and he knows nothing of her, she is nobody.
He is Mexico's greatest artist. She drinks like a sailor, wears flowers in her hair, talks openly about sex, loves attending protests and parties to wake the dead. She is from Coyoacán, twenty years his junior and with a broken spine to boot.
Even when her body is wracked with pain, she paints.
There were two great accidents in her life. The first was when that streetcar hit her . . . but by far the worst was meeting him.
Translated into English for the first time, Claire Berest's award-winning novel is a striking fictional imagining of the vibrant life and tumultuous marriage of one of the world's most beloved artists: Frida Kahlo.
'Claire Berest writes as captivatingly and vividly as Frida Kahlo painted' Paris Match
'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this' Grazia
'Like wandering through a painting - riotous with colour, overflowing with imagery... it captures something of Frida herself that feels totally right' Emily Howes, author of The Painter's Daughters
WINNER OF ELLE FRANCE'S GRAND PRIX DES LECTRICES.
Perfect for fans of The Artist, The Safekeep, Tracy Chevalier and Ali Smith.
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This is the story of Diego and Frida, who couldn't live without each other.
They meet at a party. She knows everything about him, about his mythology, and he knows nothing of her, she is nobody.
He is Mexico's greatest artist. She drinks like a sailor, wears flowers in her hair, talks openly about sex, loves attending protests and parties to wake the dead. She is from Coyoacán, twenty years his junior and with a broken spine to boot.
Even when her body is wracked with pain, she paints.
There were two great accidents in her life. The first was when that streetcar hit her . . . but by far the worst was meeting him.
Translated into English for the first time, Claire Berest's award-winning novel is a striking fictional imagining of the vibrant life and tumultuous marriage of one of the world's most beloved artists: Frida Kahlo.
'Claire Berest writes as captivatingly and vividly as Frida Kahlo painted' Paris Match
'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle
'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this' Grazia
'Like wandering through a painting - riotous with colour, overflowing with imagery... it capt...
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About the author
Claire Berest is the author of novels, Bellevue (2015), Gabriële (2017), which appeared in the 2025 New York Times list of best historical fiction, Rien n'est noir (2019), winner of the ELLE Readers Grand Prize, Artifices (2021), L'épaisseur d'un cheveu (2023), and works of non-fiction. Her most recent is La chair des autres (2024), about the trial of 'Mazan's rapes' and the story of Gisèle Pélicot.
Claire Berest is the author of novels, Bellevue (2015), Gabriële (2017), which appeared in the 2025 New York Times list of best historical fiction, Rien n'est noir (2019), winner of the ELLE Readers Grand Prize, Artifices (2021), L'épaisseur d'un cheveu (2023), and works of non-fiction. Her most ...
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