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Francesca Saxon, artist and loyal citizen of thenation, is thrilled when she receives a commission to design the central muralof an epic new swimming pool: the jewel in the crown for an insecure regimeobsessed by propaganda. Leaving the comfort of her coastal hometown for the lapof luxury of the capital, she is swept up in the paranoia of a governmentthreatened by underground revolutionaries, whose promise of a freer, happierfuture looks increasingly appealing. Torn between rival factions and herpersonal loyalties, she realises that when ideology has a stranglehold on art,the picture is rarely pretty. Addresses urgently relevant questions in our world ofincreasingly destabilized politics Albon trades in his colored pencils for ahaunting, dystopian palette of watercolors