'A gripping mystery... sweeping across centuries in its three interlinked sections, Molly & the Captain summons the past effortlessly' ObserverA celebrated artist of the Georgian era paints his two young daughters at the family home in Bath.The portrait, known as "Molly & the Captain", becomes instantly famous.In the summer of 1889, a young painter glimpses a mother at play with her two daughters in Kensington Gardens and decides to include them in his picture.A century later, in Kentish Town, a painter and her grown-up daughters receive news of an ancestor linking them to the long-vanished double portrait.Molly & the Captain is a story about time and art and love.Through the prism of a single painting it examines the mysteries of creativity, and the ambiguous nature of success.With period subtlety, intricate characterisation and storytelling verve, Anthony Quinn melds three families and three centuries into a single vision of human frailty and longing. 'A delicious mystery' Daily Mail'A thrilling read' Spectator'So versatile - Quinn seems to reinvent himself with every book' Jonathan Coe