**THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR**
**A Sunday Times and Financial Times Best Book of 2023**
‘A beautiful tale about beauty. It is also a tale about grief, balancing solitude and comradeship, and finding joy in both the exalted and the mundane’ Washington Post
When Patrick’s older brother dies at twenty-six, all he wants is to retreat. So, he does. He quits his job and seeks refuge in the most beautiful place he can think of: New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
All the Beauty in the World recounts Patrick’s time as a museum guard, keeping quiet vigil over some of our greatest treasures and uncovering the Met’s innermost secrets. As his connection to the art and the life that swirls around it grows, so does Patrick – and gradually he emerges transformed by heartbreak, community and the power of art to illuminate life in all its pain, pleasure and hope.
'As luminous as the old masters paintings' Daily Mail
‘Outstanding’ Sunday Times
'Consoling and beautiful' Guardian
'Marvellous' Daily Telegraph