Love enough --; Night different from all other nights --; Adagia --; Hyacinth blues --; Morningshine --; From the personal papers of Adriaan Kuypers --; Still life --; Magdalena looking.
Eight linked stories tracing the history of a painting by the 17th century Dutch artist, Vermeer. In one, he paints his daughter to pay off debts, a second story describes the loss of the ownership papers, a third takes place on the eve of its theft by the Nazis. By the author of What Love Sees.