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Clear (2024)Carys Davies"An exquisite, hopeful masterpiece ... my favorite book of 2024 and probably many more years to come."Held (2023)Anne Michaels"I was blown away by the scale, beauty, weave and thinking of this book . . . It dances with words, time and ideas in a way that seems to reinvent everything I know about the novel . . . and it's such a transporting read too. It's exquisite - I am in awe." Earth's the Right Place for Love (2023)(Mason)Elizabeth Berg"This is a compassionate, witty, and delicate story about the people who find themselves on the sidelines and yet who manage - despite losses of their own - to be true to themselves and find their way. It's a celebration of small communities and the small kindnesses that, bit by bit, change a life." Mother's Boy (2022)Patrick Gale"Mother's Boy beautifully celebrates the underdog. It is a celebration of love in hidden places, and love in ordinary places, and the courage required to be true to the person you are, when there is no road map to guide you. A sublime piece of storytelling." French Braid (2022)Anne Tyler"There is no one who can weave a story like Anne Tyler, especially when it comes to family. Exquisitely crafted, tender, hilarious, devastatingly precise, I loved this powerful meditation on the small and often unvoiced moments that can make up a life, and shape the trajectory of the future." Think of Me (2022)Frances Liardet"An epic and intensely moving novel that crosses the boundaries of place and time to weave a powerful story about overcoming the complications of love and grief - the things we try to spare one another, the things we cannot bear to see. It's a warm book, an intelligent one, richly observed, clear-eyed, and the generosity of its final pages moved me to tears." Lessons in Chemistry (2022)Bonnie Garmus"Lessons in Chemistry is a vibrant and original story of hope and staying true to yourself. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and brimming with life and generosity and courage." The Fell (2021)Sarah Moss"The Fell reflects the lives we have been living for the last 18 months in a way no other writer has dared to do. There is wit, there is compassion, there is a tension that builds like a pressure cooker. This slim, intense masterpiece is one of my best books of the year." The Impossible Truths of Love (2021)Hannah Beckerman"A page turner of a story, deeply felt, finely woven, and sharp as a tack about the unspoken conflict and isolation within families, as well as the lengths people can be driven by both love and loss. It made me think too about the nature of memory; about what exactly we own and what we assume or even imagine. It’s an unflinching book and all the better for it." The Paper Palace (2021)Miranda Cowley Heller"Beautifully written, richly compelling, The Paper Palace is as dark and uncompromising as it is tender and lyrical. Here is a love triangle that keeps you turning the pages, a vivid evocation of place, and an exploration of the one of the most unsettling of secrets." I Couldn't Love You More (2021)Esther Freud"This exquisite family saga reads as a love letter between four generations of women. Everything is here; family ghosts, the bond between mothers and daughters, cruelty, endurance, the difficulty of love, and a faith in the possibility of healing - even after years of separation. This tender, elegant book delivers an emotional punch that left me in tears." Surrogate (2021)Susan Spindler"A brilliantly structured, fast-paced and addictively compelling read. I loved the ending most of all." A Tidy Ending (2020)Joanna Cannon"A compellingly crafted, darkly funny and compulsive read, full of twists... a joy and a triumph." Coming Up For Air (2020)Sarah Leipciger"From the first page, I was gripped not only by the scale of the narrative but the sheer fierce beauty of the writing. Here is a novel that dares to cross the boundaries of time, the elements, life and death, and does so with the twists and hooks and magic of a consummate story teller." The Snakes (2019)Sadie Jones"Masterful, terrifying, dangerous, with an ending that is as uncompromising as the build-up is truthful. The Snakes is as beautifully written as it is dark and honest." The Heavens (2019)Sandra Newman"I was gripped, moved, terrified and finally uplifted by this glittering, unforgettable story." The Distance Home (2018)Paula Saunders"Set in a landscape at once stark and beautiful, here is a luminous novel about the intricacies of family life and family love . . . Heartbreaking, full of compassion, and prose that feels it has always been there, not even forged from nothing, but essentially true. I haven’t read anything this good in a long time." Tomorrow (2018)Damian Dibben"Ornate, vivid, deeply colored, and so precise I could smell and taste the world ... the story of a dog crossing continents and centuries in search of the man he loves is moving and tender. I was captivated by its charm from the beginning." Awards
| Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2012) : The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | | Desmond Elliott Prize Best Book nominee (2012) : The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry |
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