All the Days and Nights Niven Govinden - HARPERCOLLINS

The East Coast of America, 1980 Anna Brown, a dying artist, works on her final portrait. Obsessive and secretive, it is a righting of her past failures; her final statement. John Brown, her husband and life-long muse, has left; walked out of their home one morning to travel cross-country in search of the paintings he has sat for. As their stories unfold – independently, for the first time in many years – a passionate unconventional relationship is revealed, between two people living through the most tumultuous decades of modern history. All the Days and Nights is the story of an art hunt during a twilight period of painting. It lays bare two relationships that are ever changing and incomparable: of artist and muse, and of lovers. It is an exploration of what it means to create, what it means to inspire, what it means to live.

Niven Govinden is the author of three novels, most recently Black Bread White Beer, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Green Carnation Prize and longlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.