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The jewel / Neil Hegarty.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF HEGA	Adult Fiction		Campsie .	. Available .
AF HEGA	Adult Fiction		Padstow .	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781789541816 (paperback)
Name	Hegarty, Neil author.
Title	The jewel / Neil Hegarty.
Published	London : Head of Zeus, 2019.
Published	©2019
Description	355 pages ; 23 cm
Summary	At the heart of this moving and unusual novel is a strange painting by a woman who committed suicide rather than live with neglect and pain. Her final glowingly beautiful work was painted with a technique more usual for posters and banners, and not designed to last. She intended it as her shroud. It hangs in a Dublin gallery, and it is desired by a collector who is willing to pay to have it stolen. The thief is a disillusioned, corrupted London artist coping with tragic loss. The curator of the painting is a lonely gallerist whose life centres on her work. And the man charged with recovering the stolen painting is a gay man trapped in an abusive relationship. The lives of these three damaged people, each evoked with a calm, moving sympathy reminiscent of Michael Cunningham or David Park, come together around the hauntingly strange Victorian painting. Set in London, Dublin, Northern Ireland and various European capitals, Distemper is a major new novel from an Irish writer coming into his own.
Subjects	Women painters -- Fiction
	Suicide -- Fiction
	Art thefts -- Fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Art thefts -- Fiction . Suicide -- Fiction . Women painters -- Fiction . Authors: Hegarty, Neil .