<P><B>'A sinuous, thrilling meditation on fakes and forgers, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier and Sarah Waters' OLIVIA LAING</B><BR/><B>'So witty and propulsive you will forget how brilliantly constructed it is' JESSIE BURTON</B><BR/><B>'Deliciously engaging and wildly intelligent' </B><B>AYŞEGÜL SAVAŞ</B><BR/><B>'A delightful, playful puzzle of a novel' CLAIRE FULLER</B><BR/><BR/><I>‘There was a painting my family set on fire. It burned to ashes, and then it came back.’</I></P> Oxfordshire, 1899. Grace Inderwick grows up on the peripheries of a once-great household, an unwanted guest in her uncle’s home. She has unusual skills and unusual predilections: for painting, though faces elude her; for lurking in the shadows; for other girls.<BR/> <BR/> Then a letter arrives, postmarked Saint Helena. After years missing at sea, Grace’s cousin Charles is ready to come home. When Charles returns, u
