Reviews round-up
The Secret Painter
by Joe Tucker
3 of 3 critics positive
3 reviews: 1 rave, 2 positives
What the critics said
Rave
Read the review ↗“joyous chronicler of working class life in this affectionate and beautifully-written story”
The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker review – an artist in the family
Positive
Read the review ↗“an utterly charming read”
The extraordinary story of the secret painter discovered in his eighties
Positive
Read the review ↗“a searching, touching tribute to an uncle’s roisterous, creative life”
The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker: A complex, multilayered portrait of an ostensibly ordinary working-class life
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