UK REVIEWS:'This is not just another book with a Vermeer on the dust jacket...It is an illuminating meditation on the nature of art....This beautifully imagined and written book...is a work of art itself' Sunday Telegraph'Susan Vreeland's...imaginitive, deeply moving triumph' Ms LondonUS REVIEWS:'A work of art' New York Post'Intelligent, searching and unusual, the novel is filled with luminous moments; like the painting it describes so well, it has a way of lingering in the reader's mind' New York Times Book Review'Subtle and atmospheric...an impressive debut' Publishers Weekly'Wonderful...extraordinarily skilled...deft, perceptive...deeply moving' Kirkus Reviews'Wonderful' Salon.com