Painter of Silence - Softcover

Conjures a tale that recalls vintage Michael Ondaatje ... delicate and sweeping (Daily Mail)

This is fiction of the most graceful kind ... a quiet storm of imagery and emotions (Christian House Independent on Sunday)

I loved Painter of Silence. It was like entering a dream world that became more and more real, until I actually needed to get back to it. Her writing is so gentle and beautiful and takes you so confidently on a journey. I let myself be carried away. Heaven (Esther Freud)

Painter of Silence insists on being recommended because of its unassertive originality, its sense of history, its knowledge of the unsaid and the unsayable, and - not least - its delightfully surprising ending (Paul Bailey Independent)

Harding writes with exquisite restraint ... Her deceptively simple prose gives a startling beauty to the ordinary, and evokes great depth of suffering (Guardian)

Harding's writing has a careful, lilting fluency which nourishes a slow-burning momentum ... an adroit examination of our need for a home, and the terrible consequences of its loss (Philip Womack Daily Telegraph)

A must-read ... Hauntingly beautiful, for fans of The English Patient (Viv Groskop Red)