The Painter's Friend
08 July 2021Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘One of the books of the year. Cunnell’s style is matchless: intimate, dark, sincere, wry and exquisitely beautiful’ – Irish Times
‘A cracking, urgent page-turner of a novel’ – Observer
The painter Terry Godden was on the brink of his first success. After a violent crisis, he finds himself outcast.
In his fifties, and with little money, he retreats to a small island....
Details
08 July 2021288 pages
9781529030952Imprint: Picador
Reviews
I loved it. Cunnell’s writing has an unforgettable visual and moral clarityMelissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley
His finest and most important work to dateCathi Unsworth, author of Weirdo
Cunnell’s prose is elegantly punchy . . . The valour of his fight is revealed in a story of what can happen when truth is considered idealism and collides with the predatory designs of a property developer. A fine bookJohn Healy, author of The Grass Arena
Loving in its exploration of creative survival and loss of human habitat. Every fleck and dab of verbal pigment rewards the eye and enriches the designAdam Mars-Jones, author of Box Hill
