Masterpiece

Masterpiece is just wonderful. There's a generosity and scope to this novel that expands the heart and fills the mind. It's one of those books that you can't wait to talk about with friends. Three very different stories weave their way through three centuries, each one showing that art and love - and the courage to be different - really matter. The characters crackle on the page and take up residence in your head. It's dextrous, vivid and wise: a tonic and a celebration. My book of the year.

Cressida Connolly

I love Rothschild's cleverness, wit and heart, and this is the book she was born to write.

Rosie Boycott

What gives the novel its power is the human depth beneath the art. Rothschild is acutely attentive to the fragile, often contradictory inner lives of her characters—ambition braided with vulnerability, intellect shadowed by grief, love constrained by invidious laws. Even as the narrative delves into the rarefied world of art, it never loses sight of the emotional stakes that make that world matter. Masterpiece is also a fast-paced, addictive page-turner, as gripping as the finest whodunnit

Geordie Greig