A review by roba
Painter to the King by Amy Sackville

4.0

This is an amazing piece of historical fiction writing. It's almost more a work of art history than a novel - and I have to admit, I lost some interest towards the end (once you've made your point that historical traces are incomplete and you can never know what actually happened, maybe have some Vikings attack or something?)... but that may be more because I approached it expecting more of a story. But the imaginative exercise is really impressive.