The Road to Urbino

¿Every act has a past. Events don't just materialise from nowhere.' Ras is a former attendant at London's National Gallery who, having become fascinated with the work of Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca, is now awaiting trial for the theft of one of his paintings. His lawyer, Elizabeth Saunders, must piece together his story, and that of enigmatic bon viveur writer Alex Benson - a story that leads from war-torn Sri Lanka to London, to the hills of Italy where, despite the serenity of the landscape, war's shadow looms long and large. A vivid fresco of art, love and loss from the LA Times First Fiction Award-shortlisted author of Mosquito.

About the author

Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan-born, Oxford-based artist, film-maker and writer. She trained as a painter, completing her MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. Her debut novel, Mosquito, was shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Book Awards First Novel Prize and LA Times First Fiction Prize. The Swimmer was longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2011 and Asian Man Booker in 2012.

Product details

• Authors: Roma Tearne, Tearne Roma
• Publisher: Gallic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781910709481
• ISBN: 978-1-910709-48-1
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Fiction: general and literary, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)