How to Paint a Dead Man - Sarah Hall

I found this totally captivating - four strands of loosely-linked stories to do with art and loss, all slightly disturbing but utterly fascinating, told in brief sections with very different voices - even one (about a bereaved twin without a clear sense of her own identity) addressed to "you". I am in awe of the precision and power of her writing, and some of the scenes (such as the blind girl trying to understand the mesmerising power of her family's newly acquired television) are lingering in my imagination still - in fact, this was the kind of novel where the characters stayed with me, leaving me trying to unravel mysteries in the plot and envisage "what happened next".