From the author of ‘Black Bread White Beer’.The East Coast of America, 1980.Anna Brown, a dying artist, works on her final portrait. Obsessive and secretive, it is a righting of her past failures; her final statement.John Brown, her husband and...
OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATUREAmal is driving his wife Claud from London to her parents’ country house. In the wake of Claud’s miscarriage, it is a journey that will push their relationship...