Howard Cunnell’s most recent books are a novel, The Painter’s Friend (Picador, 2021), described as ‘matchless’ and ‘one of the books of the year’ (Irish Times), and Fathers and Sons (Picador, 2017), his acclaimed, ‘unique, and uniquely beautiful’ memoir (Financial Times). A former scuba instructor and dive guide, he is the contributing editor of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road -The Original Scroll (Viking, 2007), which the New York Times called ‘the living version for our time.’ Howard Cunnell lives in Sussex.
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The working-class painter Terry Godden was on the brink of his first success. After a violent crisis, he finds himself outcast. Nearing sixty and with modest means, he has retreated to a small island. The island seems to be a closed, cold place. As the... SEE MORE