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'A wonderful writer: one in possession of immense feeling'

* The Observer *

'Roberts writes with wit and honesty.'

* The Independent *

'A magnificent writer.'

* The Guardian *

'Brimming with delights, as full of life and colour as Matisse's cut outs. Beautifully written with many sharp and original ideas about life and loss and creativity. A novel of deep pleasures.'

'Lyrical, atmospheric, wonderful. This novel has all the romance of the most delicious hot French summer. No-one writes quite like Michele Roberts.'

'One of Britain's best novelists.'

* Independent on Sunday *

The story is alive with vivid women.

* Financial Times *

Impressive.

* The Sunday Times *

This lyrical tale of family secrets and self-discovery is heavenly.

* Woman's Weekly *

Roberts tells her tale carefully, in small brightly coloured segments that can't help but recall the style of Matisse's famous cut-out artworks, and with an eye for domestic detail so sumptuous you can almost feel the linen and smell the sage leaves.

* Daily Mail *

A subtle and delicate new work of fiction imagining the unsung lives of women in the orbit of Henri Matisse.

* Mail on Sunday *

A sumptuously written and life-affirming examination of what it is to be an artist, a woman, a feminist...

* Literary Review *

It's a book to be read slowly, taking time to pause, remember, picture and dream.

* The Scotsman *

A tender exploration of friendship and love in its many forms.

* The Tablet *

Beautifully written

* Woman *