The Restoration

"I am a person who finds it easier to be in rooms with damaged things than in rooms with people."

Art restorer Cael Morrow has built his entire life around this truth. For fifteen years, he has moved through grand houses and ruined estates, bringing damaged paintings back from the brink - and keeping every human being at a careful, professional distance. When he accepts a commission to restore a nineteenth-century portrait at a crumbling Lincolnshire manor, he expects six weeks of solitude, ...