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An epic, intimate and profound portrait novel about grief, trauma, revelation and art - by the author of the award-winning For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
The year is 1875, and John Ruskin is losing his mind.
The celebrated art critic, the revered Professor of Art, the author of countless books, the campaigner for social reform, the man who taught a generation to see, finds himself stumbling blindly in the wake of a terrible grief: the madness and death of a young woman he once loved.
Following Ruskin from candlelit séances in country houses to the dazzling palazzos of Venice to the rainswept hills of the Lake District, Victoria MacKenzie captures the exquisite anguish of a man who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his work, and yet whose attempts at intimacy were hopelessly thwarted. Beautiful, haunting and heartbreaking, it is an unforgettable portrait of longing, madness, grief - and the redemptions of art and the natural world.
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Praise for For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain:
?A beautiful book ... It warmed my heart' MAX PORTER
?Electrifying ... A pocket epic' GUARDIAN
?The best first novel I've read in years' RODDY DOYLE
?It illuminates like a shaft of sunlight' IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR
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Victoria MacKenzie is a fiction writer and poet. Her debut novel For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain was awarded the Scottish Book Awards - First Book of the Year and selected as a book of the year by the Sunday Times, Guardian, Scotsman and Irish Times. MacKenzie is the winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award and the inaugural Emerging Writer Award from Moniack Mhor. MacKenzie teaches creative writing for the Open College of the Arts. She lives in Scotland.
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