A completely fascinating novel about the early 20th century art world and its many dubious machinations. Expertly researched, compellingly narrated and full of potent resonance today -- William Boyd
Clare Clark casts her spell of time and place with casual elegance and no apparent tricks - yet caught me up in this juicy story of colossal art fraud, the passions and intrigues of her vivid and moving characters - and the truly terrifying rise of the Nazi party, with all its contemporary echoes. The atmosphere of this book lingers on -- Laline Paull
I loved In the Full Light Of The Sun, a novel about deception, self-deception, truth, love and lies that will enthral anyone fascinated by Van Gogh, the art world and Berlin in the 1920s. Written with verve and assurance it is both engaging and humane -- Amanda Craig
In her gripping new novel Clare Clark paints a picture of Weimar Berlinin which surface glitter hides sinister and bitter truths. Page by page she brings secret lives into the light; nothing: not love, not art, not politics, is what it seems, and few escape the brutal forces that emerge -- Stella Tillyard
An engrossing read * Image magazine *
A wonderful novel: passionate, intelligent, humane, it held me from the first page to the last. Van Gogh's fleeting genius - achingly out of reach, the pull so strong - is wonderfully evoked; and the house of cards that was the Weimar Republic provides the perfectly rendered backdrop for a story about our willingness to deceive in the pursuit of beauty -- Rachel Seiffert
A fascinating tale . . . Clark's historical worlds are meticulously researched * The Times *
With great skill and sympathy, Clark evokes a febrile society in which politics, love and art offer no certainties, and the ground always threatens to open beneath her characters' feet -- Nick Rennison * Sunday Times *
Clark excels . . . a gripping and ultimately moving story about art, artifice and authenticity -- Neil Armstrong * Mail on Sunday *
An irresistible story . . . as compelling as it is expansive * Guardian *
A Vanity Fair of delusion, greed and much suffering, it is brilliantly evoked, sophisticated and beautifully written -- Elizabeth Buchan
