SOURCE: "Art and Revelation," in Belles Lettres: A Review of Books by Women, Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall, 1993, pp. 23, 43.

In the excerpt below, Harris relates Urquhart's focus on art, creation, and obsessive love in Changing Heaven.

The relationship between art, the artist, and the appreciation of art has long intrigued writers of fiction. This theme is explored brilliantly in new novels by [Jane Urquhart and other] emerging but already masterful authors who freely transcend boundaries between centuries, life and death, and reality and memory….

In Changing Heaven, Jane Urquhart weaves together stories about Victorian and modern couples as she explores obsessive love and the role of imagination in art….

An Excerpt from Away

Late the next morning Aidan and Eileen awoke to the smell of mildew and dissolved wallpaper paste; odours they had ignored the night before. They dressed and descended the damp stairs to assess the damage to the...