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In the Full Light of the Sun

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In the Full Light of the Sun follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in a devastating scandal of 1930s' Germany. It tells the story of Emmeline, a wayward, young art student; Julius, an anxious, middle-aged art expert; and a mysterious art dealer named Rachmann who are at the heart of Weimar Berlin at its hedonistic, politically turbulent apogee and are whipped up into excitement over the surprising discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent van Gogh.

Based on a true story, unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, this gripping tale is about beauty and justice, and the truth that may be found when our most treasured beliefs are revealed as illusions.

Brilliant on authenticity, vanity and self-delusion, it is a novel for our times.

Critics Review

A completely fascinating novel about the early 20th century art world and its many dubious machinations. Expertly researched, compellingly narrated and full of potent resonance today
William Boyd
Clare Clark casts her spell of time and place with casual elegance and no apparent tricks - yet caught me up in this juicy story of colossal art fraud, the passions and intrigues of her vivid and moving characters - and the truly terrifying rise of the Nazi party, with all its contemporary echoes. The atmosphere of this book lingers on
Laline Paull
I loved In the Full Light Of The Sun, a novel about deception, self-deception, truth, love and lies that will enthral anyone fascinated by Van Gogh, the art world and Berlin in the 1920s. Written with verve and assurance it is both engaging and humane
Amanda Craig
In her gripping new novel Clare Clark paints a picture of Weimar Berlinin which surface glitter hides sinister and bitter truths. Page by page she brings secret lives into the light; nothing: not love, not art, not politics, is what it seems, and few escape the brutal forces that emerge
Stella Tillyard
An engrossing read
Image magazine
A wonderful novel: passionate, intelligent, humane, it held me from the first page to the last. Van Gogh's fleeting genius - achingly out of reach, the pull so strong - is wonderfully evoked; and the house of cards that was the Weimar Republic provides the perfectly rendered backdrop for a story about our willingness to deceive in the pursuit of beauty
Rachel Seiffert
A fascinating tale . . . Clark's historical worlds are meticulously researched
The Times
With great skill and sympathy, Clark evokes a febrile society in which politics, love and art offer no certainties, and the ground always threatens to open beneath her characters' feet
Sunday Times
Clark excels . . . a gripping and ultimately moving story about art, artifice and authenticity
Mail on Sunday
An irresistible story . . . as compelling as it is expansive
Guardian
A Vanity Fair of delusion, greed and much suffering, it is brilliantly evoked, sophisticated and beautifully written
Elizabeth Buchan
Author Clare Clark
Narrator Helen Duff, Jonathan Keeble, Richard Burnip
Duration 14 hours and 49 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405542746
Format Audiobook
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Second World War fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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