Pixie
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Pixie
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Kristin Atherton
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Narrated by:
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Kristin Atherton
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Ms Jill Dawson
About this listen
“Pixie”. I like it. “Pixie Pamela”. It’s a good name for me: sometimes tiny and invisible. Other times bouncing up to the ceiling to look down on everyone.
It’s the turn of the twentieth century and Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith is a young woman of stark contradictions: plucky yet naïve, artistically gifted despite lacking classical training, fascinated by the esoteric but sceptical of the world around her.
After the deaths of her beloved mother and her troubled but well-intentioned father, Pixie finds herself in the complex, political world of fin-de-siècle art, trying to get her stunning work seen and to forge a name and a path for herself in life. Across Jamaica, Devon, London and Brooklyn, Pixie is a novel of epic proportions, a tale of the twists and turns, séances and secrets, successes and devastation, of one young woman’s talent, grit and determination.
In Pixie, Whitbread and Orange Prize-shortlisted author Jill Dawson renders the real-life figure of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith, artist, publisher and illustrator of the still-iconic Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck, in arrestingly vivid detail, breathing life into a story that is instantly knowable, but has, until now, eluded popular imagination.©2026 Ms Jill Dawson (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Critic reviews
Pixie is a captivating insight into the life of the most famous occult artist you've never heard of (PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train)
In Pixie, Jill Dawson has deftly conjured back into life a woman who is shrouded in mystery and the occult. For too long Pamela Coleman Smith has remained an anecdote to England’s rich history of magic, when indeed, via her life and drawings for the Ryder-Waite-Smith tarot deck, she played a central role . . . I not only rejoiced in this book, but welcome it as an important work of feminist reclamation . . . Pixie is a story that needed to be told. She is in good hands, here, and a work of magic has been done. It’s thrilling to live with this book (MONIQUE ROFFEY, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch)
Pixie is a living, bouncing, thinking entity on the page . . . A fabulous writer and a wonderful book (LOUISA YOUNG, author of My Dear I Wanted to Tell You)
A wonderful evocation of the life and times of a bewitching artist. Jill Dawson has a gift for turning up the unexpected card in any deck and Pixie is one of her best (ROMESH GUNESEKERA, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Reef)
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