Casually magisterial GuardianEndlessly intriguing ObserverA marvel of a novel Ali SmithJane Eyre by way of Patricia Highsmith BBC Radio 4Puts Stevens in the class of Sarah Waters Financial TimesThere was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a oncegreat household, an unwanted guest in her uncles home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections for painting, though faces elude her for lurking in the shadows for other girls.Then a letter arrives, postmarked Saint Helena. After years missing at sea, Graces cousin Charles is ready to come home. When Charles returns, unrecognisable and uncanny, a rift emerges between those who claim he is an imposter and Graces aunt, who insists he is her son. And Grace, whose intimate knowledge of forgeries is her own closelyguarded secret, must decide who and what to believe in, and what kind of life she wants to live.Deftlyplotted and shimmering with Nell Stevenss distinctive intelligence, style and wit, THE ORIGINAL is a novel about the value of authenticity in art and in love, and what it means to be a true original.What a bewitching book this is. A sinuous, thrilling meditation on fakes and forgers, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier and Sarah Waters and an audacity that is totally original to Nell Stevens herself Olivia Laing, author of THE GARDEN AGAINST TIMEDeliciously engaging and wildly intelligent. I adored this novel about...

Binding: Hardcover;320 pages; Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 674 g; Dimensions: 162 x 243 x 31

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