All the Beauty in the World is published on March 16th and is available for preorder now. Join us in April to hear Patrick in conversation about this wonderful book with James Attlee – tickets here.

Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase into New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. Patrick Bringley never thought he’d be one of them.

But when his brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer he quit his journalism job, and sought peace in the most beautiful place he knew. To his surprise, this temporary refuge becomes his home away from home for a decade. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and place among the lively subculture of museum guards.

As his bonds with colleagues and the art grow, he learns how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually, gratefully returns.