
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...

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...



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.