A mid-life coming-of-age story charting one man's sexual awakening and his spectacular fall from grace in 1990s London. Cambridge Professor Don Lamb is a revered art historian, consumed by the book he is writing about the skies of the Venetian master Tiepolo. However, his academic brilliance belies a deep inexperience of life and love. Over the course of one long, hot summer, Don glimpses a liberating new existence. An exquisite debut novel about art, beauty, sex and censure.