Based on a true story, unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, this gripping tale is about beauty and justice, and the truth that may be found when our most treasured beliefs are revealed as illusions. By the Women's Prize for Fiction twice-longlisted author.

In her gripping new novel Clare Clark paints a picture of Weimar Berlin in which surface glitter hides sinister and bitter truths.
Page by page she brings secret lives into the light; nothing: not love, not art, not politics, is what it seems, and
few escape the brutal forces that emerge - Stella Tillyard


A completely fascinating novel about the early 20th century art world and its many dubious machinations.
Expertly researched, compellingly narrated and full of potent resonance today - William Boyd


A stunning novel, beautifully written, that makes us feel as though we're back in the inter-war period,
living through these events alongside fascinating characters - Jane Harris

A Vanity Fair of delusion, greed and much suffering, it is brilliantly evoked, sophisticated and beautifully written