Author Description

The second novel from the author of 'Black Bread White Beer' Anna is an American painter whose portraits of her lover, John, spanning fifty years have made her one of the most famous and collectible artists in the world. The novel opens on the morning John walks out of their home seemingly never to return. As Anna narrates the days that follow we witness a stark and harrowingly beautiful account of the troubled lives artist and muse. Review Praise for Black Bread White Beer Niven Govinden brilliantly evokes the bleak comedy and deranged exhilaration of modern life. This is the sound of the suburbs. - Jake Arnott, author of The Long Firm I m full of admiration for this novel and the way it captures a couple as a crisis detonates in their marriage and exposes all sorts of emotional and cultural fault lines in the process. Alex Clark A novel of genuine power and resonance. It is the kind of book readers long for but so rarely find. Stuart Evers In form and scope, Black Bread White Beer recalls Ian McEwan s novella On Chesil Beach. Tehelka (India)"Praise for All the Days and Nights A potent exploration of an artist and her muses. Jeff Jackson, author of Mira Corpora Praise for Black Bread White Beer Niven Govinden brilliantly evokes the bleak comedy and deranged exhilaration of modern life. This is the sound of the suburbs. - Jake Arnott, author of The Long Firm I m full of admiration for this novel and the way it captures a couple as a crisis detonates in their marriage and exposes all sorts of emotional and cultural fault lines in the process. Alex Clark A novel of genuine power and resonance. It is the kind of book readers long for but so rarely find. Stuart Evers In form and scope, Black Bread White Beer recalls Ian McEwan s novella On Chesil Beach. Tehelka (India)"Praise for All the Days and Nights Gov nden is the kind of gentle modernist that contemporary Br tish fiction needs; entertaining, intellectual, emotional, poet c, fabulous. Deborah Le