‘An extraordinary book which takes the reader into a world of obsession and mystery…The Folding Star is lit by insight and humour’ Evening StandardEdward Manners – thirty three and disaffected – escapes to a Flemish city in search of a new life. Almost at once he falls in love with seventeen-year-old Luc, and is introduced to the twilight world of the 1890s Belgian painter Edgard Orst.
‘A generous pinch of true wit’ Sunday Times
