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A tender and savage novel narrated by the wife of the doctor who tended van Gogh in his last, madly frenetic painting years.

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A touching and finely written novel * Sunday Times *
A tender, passionate tale of reverie and redemption * Express *
Seductive . . . [a] lushly written, powerfully charged novel that imagines a friendship between a middle-aged warden's wife and Vincent Van Gogh * Metro *
Fletcher explores the concept of 'madness' with compassion, and her beautiful, sensuous writing makes you see [van Gogh's] paintings with a fresh eye * Saga *
An exquisitely written portrait of a marriage. I loved it * Woman & Home *
This is a novel about the power of seeing and being seen, the transcendence of everyday beauty, commonplace joys. Fletcher unpeels with delicacy and insight the complex layers of the human heart * Guardian *
Fletcher has always attracted praise for the lyricism of her prose . . . here she finds a new restraint that not only intensifies the beauty of her language but feels truer and more profound * Guardian *

Let Me Tell You About A Man I Knew

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: 01/06/2017
      ISBN13: 9780349007632, 978-0349007632
      ISBN10: 0349007632
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A tender and savage novel narrated by the wife of the doctor who tended van Gogh in his last, madly frenetic painting years.

      Trade Review
      A touching and finely written novel * Sunday Times *
      A tender, passionate tale of reverie and redemption * Express *
      Seductive . . . [a] lushly written, powerfully charged novel that imagines a friendship between a middle-aged warden's wife and Vincent Van Gogh * Metro *
      Fletcher explores the concept of 'madness' with compassion, and her beautiful, sensuous writing makes you see [van Gogh's] paintings with a fresh eye * Saga *
      An exquisitely written portrait of a marriage. I loved it * Woman & Home *
      This is a novel about the power of seeing and being seen, the transcendence of everyday beauty, commonplace joys. Fletcher unpeels with delicacy and insight the complex layers of the human heart * Guardian *
      Fletcher has always attracted praise for the lyricism of her prose . . . here she finds a new restraint that not only intensifies the beauty of her language but feels truer and more profound * Guardian *

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