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Praise for The Company   `Pitched somewhere between Robinson Crusoe and Lord of the Flies, this is a thoroughly diabolical tale in the best sense’ Daily Mail    `We’re led into the mind of a marooned madman via a lapidary, first-person prose style that speaks vividly to the senses. Nimbly balanced on a tightrope of acute intelligence and ruthless psychopathy’  Time Out   `Edge is almost as good as Patrick O’Brian in her re-creation of life on a sailing ship…A second novel please. 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Aged just twenty-one, Géricault is feted at the prestigious salon for his painting Charging Chasseur. Seven years later – lovesick and distracted by his secret affair with his benefactor–uncle’s wife, Alexandrine – he is still desperately searching for inspiration for his next work. Then he hears about the French frigate Medusa, wrecked off the west coast of Africa. With a hundred and fifty souls abandoned on a makeshift raft, rumours of madness, murder and cannibalism horrify the French public but fascinate Géricault; when he manages to track down two of the raft’s survivors to discover what really happened during those fifteen days at sea, he knows he has finally found his subject.   ‘This is a marvellously rich and pacy novel about the gestation of a masterpiece . . . 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