A charged novel that delves into the intense friendship between an artist and her muse in the London art scene of the 1990s.

The must-read art world novel of the summer: a story of love, ego and destruction, and the dark relationship between authenticity and celebrity, artist and muse. London. 1990s. Amid the heady rebellion of Young British Artists, Rabble Stone, a photographer, meets the artist, a painter, after renting a room in her Brixton home. Soon Rabble is in thrall to this new world: to the run-down glamour of the Victorian house; to the exhilarating and debauched gallery openings, and to those in the artist's orbit, beautiful and lost. Above all, she is drawn to her new friend's work; raw, unfiltered self-portraits of startling intimacy, which Rabble captures in her uncompromising photographs. But as Rabble's longing tips into obsession, her pursuit of the artist - her fame, her wealth, her life - threatens to consume her... "Sharp, vivid, compelling: a love letter to the last identifiable scene in British Art that captures the energy, grit and luxury and hunger of 90s London" - Lizzy Stewart, author of Alison and Wreck

"Sharp, vivid, compelling: a love letter to the last identifiable scene in British Art that captures the energy, grit and luxury and hunger of 90s London" - author of Alison

"A brilliant, daring novel, about art and devotion and infatuation. I love the way Hyde sneakily inserts well-known artworks into her fiction. But most of all I love the hypnotic rhythm of the language, laced so skilfully with internal rhyme" - author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither

"Intense... In spare, compelling prose [Exhibition] captures the fever of the exploding Young British Artists scene, as well as the complex dynamics of attraction, possession and competition... Hyde deftly explores friendship, fame and the ambiguities of artistic collaboration and ownership" - Bookseller