Self Portrait with Boy

<B>Rachel Lyon's first novel – soon to be made into a major motion picture starring Zoë Kravitz and Thomasin McKenzie</B><BR/><BR/> Lu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. Until, by pure chance, Lu discovers she’s captured a tragedy in the background of a self portrait; a boy falling to his death. The photograph turns out to be the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life – if she lets it.<BR/><BR/> Set in early 90s Brooklyn on the brink of gentrification, <I>Self-Portrait with Boy</I> is a provocative commentary about the emotional<BR/> dues that must be paid on the road to success.<BR/><BR/><B>‘Beautifully imagined and flawlessly executed’ Joyce Carol Oates</B><BR/><BR/><B>‘A sparkling debut’ <I>New York Times Book Review</I></B>