<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS'' CLUB FIRST NOVEL AWARD</b><br><br><b>''Divine . . . the smart, sexy read you need'' <i>Evening Standard</i></b><br><br><b>''</b><b>Startlingly</b><b> impressive'' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><b>''An electric new novel'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>Exiled from his university position for an inexcusable blunder, art historian Don Lamb flees to London, a city alive with sex and creativity. There, over the course of a long, hot summer, as he is immersed in the anarchic art and gay scenes of the mid-90s, Don sees his carefully curated life irrevocably changed. But his epiphany is also a reckoning, as his unexamined past is revealed to him in a devastating new light.<br><br>Intense and atmospheric, <i>Tiepolo Blue </i>traces Don''s turbulent awakening, and his desperate flight from art into life.<br><br><b>''Wildly enjoyable . . . A novel that combines formal elegance with gripping storytelling'' <i>Financial Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Dizzying and exciting