All the Days And Nights

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From the author of Black Bread White Beer
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 the artist and the muse, and of lovers. It is an exploration of what it means to create, what it means to inspire, what it means to live.

Reviews

A Book of the Year 2014: THE OBSERVER and Netgalley

Longlisted for the Folio Prize 2015

Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize 2014

Intense, elegant, beautiful writing. The Times

Flashes of brilliance. Independent

Slender, stylish and moving. Observer

Beautifully written, elegiac in tone, its also surprisingly pacy, as gripping as any thriller Its a short novel, which is just as well, as its impossible to put down. John Harding, Daily Mail

A short, lyrical and densely written exploration of the relationship between artist and muse. Financial Times

Govnden is the kind of gentle modernist that contemporary Brtish fiction needs; entertaining, intellectual, emotional, poetc, fabulous. Deborah Levy

All the Days and Nights is short but dense with theme and subtle in its depiction of the central characters and their complex relationship. We Love This Book

A terrific idea. BBC Frontrow

'For our money the Man Booker Prize should have gone to Niven Govinden's fourth novel, All The Days and Nights' NetGalley

A potent exploration of an artist and her muses. Jeff Jackson

'Singular, astonishing and deeply emotive, All the Days and Nights is a flawlessly written work of insight and understanding. It confirms Niven Govinden as one of this countrys most original, intelligent and persuasive voices. Stuart Evers

Slender but dense, detached yet deeply moving, Niven Govinden's All The Days And Nights takes on the big subjects art, love, death, and inspiration with great subtlety and stealth. Rupert Thomson

All the Days and Nights is a beautifully sad novel that artfully captures the peculiar sense of knowing that death is approaching and what it is like to be forced to deal with loss before it has happened. Fiction Uncovered

Intriguing and somehow magical a thoughtful and rewarding work. Independent on Sunday

A moving tale of love, memory and absence. Telegraph

Author Bio

Niven Govinden is the author of two previous novels, Graffiti My Soul and We are the New Romantics. He lives in London.