
Hall's writing manages to combine acute sensitivity and daring. ... Visceral and engaging. ... The emotional lives of her characters are skillfully realized in this bright weave of disparate voices-for whom art is at once a way of seeing and a way of life. --The Times...

A Booker-longlisted novel of art, absence, loss and passion, from Britain's most exciting contemporary writer. Moving between Italy and England, the lives of four people intertwine across half a century: a dying painter considers the sacrifices and losses that have...



Moving from Italy to England, spanning nearly half a century, and bringing together the lives of four disparate characters, this daringly imaginative tale is a brilliant study of art and its place in people's lives.