The Violet Hour

As the sun is setting on a quiet London street, a young man falls to his death.But this is no unexplained tragedy, and soon the lives of seemingly unconnected individuals become intertwined. Among them, a world-renowned painter who fears his powers are waning, a New York gallerist haunted by the past and a billionaire art collector obsessed with a new painting to the point of madness.Exposing the unsettling underbelly of the glittering art world and spanning Manhattan, Mayfair, the Swiss mountains, Venice and Los Angeles, The Violet Hour is a novel of success and failure, grief and love, and the question of how to live in a world fuelled by money and ambition.