I'd read this author's 'Left Bank' and was a bit disappointed by it but I decided to give her a second chance with this one. I'm glad I did. The prologue makes clear Fergus succeeds in his career, but the first half of the book is about his childhood on the Scottish West coast and then what happens to him when he runs away from home after an accident. This is not the usual smooth, shallow rags to riches story. His childhood is beautifully portrayed and the language really brings it to life. The ambiguous sexuality of his early days in London is also excellent.
The problems Fergus encounters in his rise to fame and how he still carries the scars, mental and physical, from his childhood are well described without indulging in navel gazing. The characters are very realistic and three dimensional as is the artistic world in the latter half of the book. I loved it and once I'd started reading I couldn't put it down.
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