Reissued in the VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS series, a novel about a painter who specialises in copying other's work. Troubled by his artistic conscience and the women in his life, he eventually draws a remarkable conclusion from his work and the silent agony of his son. From the author of GEORGE BENEATH A PAPER MOON.
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Beautifully observed (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
Plays with time and notions of forgery and fidelity in life and art, as well as tracing with extraordinary exactness and creative tact the pain and survival of loss of a loved one (GUARDIAN)
Unfolds like a Persian carpet in a market place, each new inch surprising . . As gripping as a thriller and elegant at the same time (Frances Fyfield)
Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today (P.D. JAMES)
* Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and filmed by the BBC, this marvellous novel about the heroic yet impossible desire to protect another human being with love now joins the Virago Modern Classics
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