The lives of four individuals — a dying painter, a blind girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator — intertwine across nearly five decades in this luminous and searching novel of extraordinary power.

With How to Paint a Dead Man

, Sarah Hall, "one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists" (

The Guardian

), delivers "a maddeningly enticing read... an amazing feat of literary engineering" (

The Independent on Sunday

).