Press Reviews

• Sunday Telegraph

  This is not just another book with a Vermeer on the dust jacket...[but] an illuminating meditation on the nature of art....This beautifully imagined and written book...is a work of art itself'

• UK REVIEWS: 'This is not just another book with a Vermeer on the dust jacket...It is an illuminating meditation on the nature of art....This beautifully imagined and written book...is a work of art itself' Sunday Telegraph

• 'Susan Vreeland's...imaginitive, deeply moving triumph' Ms London

• Publishers Weekly

  Subtle and atmospheric...an impressive debut.

• `...celebrate the skill with which Susan Vreeland evokes the diverse owners of the picture across the ages' Independent

• Kirkus Reviews

  Wonderful...Extraordinarily skilled...deft, perceptive, full of learning, deeply moving

• Katy Emck, New York Times Review of Books

  Intelligent, searching and unusual, the novel is filled with luminous moments; like the painting it describes so well, it has a way of lingering in the reader's mind

• US REVIEWS:

• New York Post

  A work of art

• 'A work of art' New York Post

• 'Intelligent, searching and unusual, the novel is filled with luminous moments; like the painting it describes so well, it has a way of lingering in the reader's mind' New York Times Book Review

• 'Subtle and atmospheric...an impressive debut' Publishers Weekly

• 'Wonderful...extraordinarily skilled...deft, perceptive...deeply moving' Kirkus Reviews

• 'Wonderful' Salon.com