Cusset offers up a personal, detailed monograph about Hockney’s artistic journey, illustrated with Hockney’s works and featuring an exclusive afterword.

Cusset’s highly personal, enlightening, and well-researched text retraces Hockney’s entire artistic career, from growing up in England through the California years to settling down in Normandy. The painter's works complement her words in an edition drawing attention to the formal research he has undertaken. The result is a veritable monograph on Hockney, including an unpublished afterword by Catherine Cusset about her meeting with the artist after the publication of her novel.