'Nightshade is a glorious novel... full of twisted sexuality, art and power' ObserverFamily life. Reputation. They took a lifetime to build and a second to wreck.Eve Laing, once the muse of an infamous painter, is now forty years later an artist herself. But she has sacrificed her career for her family and she resents the global success of her old college roommate. When Eve embarks on her most ambitious work yet, she takes a wrecking ball to her comfortable life, jettisoning her marriage for a ...