Authenticity

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Author's sixth novel. Both a moving love story and a thought-provoking meditation upon the nature of painting, it is above all an exploration of what it means to be an artist in contemporary society.

Recipient of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hennessy Award. Twice shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Madden presently teaches at Trinity College, Dublin, and is a member of the Irish Arts Academy, Aosdána.

"This is an ideas-driven, richly textured novel about what it means to be an artist in contemporary society." –Sunday Telegraph