ArtistPatrick Hartigan recalls the weeks leading to his father's death and hisdaughter's birth. The people he meets, the places he visits, even the objectshe touches for a moment, take on a radiance usually seen in artworks we admire.Part visual memoir, part meditation on the colours and contours of life'sevents, Offcuts reveals the substanceof seemingly mundane moments. With stylistic precision and unreserved sincerity,Hartigan has created a work of art akin to Knausgaard's My Struggle, with the difference that he has distilled his rawmaterial.

'PatrickHartigan writes the same way that he paints: as if the world is standing stilland he is walking through it. This is a book of noticing, fragile andfragmented, full of yearning and idiosyncrasy. It is beautiful and in its ownway perfect.' - Erik Jensen, author of AcuteMisfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen and On Kate Jennings.