Poignancy and nostalgia follow a summer on Sark in a novel full of sensuality and wit -- Catherine Taylor Guardian Rosa Rankin-Gee has woven an irresistible and heady spell of youth and summer, love and friendship. Her energetic prose and attention to sensual detail will keep you reading greedily until the last page and thinking about the characters long afterwards. What an enchanting debut -- Joanna Hershon, author of A Dual Inheritance A delicate, mournful novel about the complicated ties that develop quickly between young people thrown together - Pick of the Month The Bookseller Funny, vivid, bittersweet -- Ned Beauman, author of The Teleportation Accident This is a book full of adventure and love. Like every great novel it has magic at its core. It feels very modern too, like it has been written by a writer of a new time ... A writer we will all want to read again and again -- Monique Roffey, author of Archipelago A luminous, enchanting novel about friendship, loss, and love. Exquisitely written, beautifully told, The Last Kings of Sark is a world I won't soon forget -- Anton DiSclafani, New York Times bestselling author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls Rosa Rankin-Gee writes beautifully and vividly The List A stunningly well-written first novel -- Kate Saunders The Times A lithe, shimmering novel ... in the strong sensuality, witty dialogue and white-heat-forged friendships there is some similarity to Geoff Dyer's 90s classic Paris Truce Guardian A captivating story with a twist ending marieclaire.co.uk Deftly done and with a pleasing air of romance as well as melancholy threaded through it -- Victoria Moore Daily Mail Perhaps luckily for Rankin-Gee, her debut novel more than lives up to the hype. Subtle and sensual, The Last Kings of Sark delicately and eloquently weaves a heady tale of complicated love around the tiny island of Sark ... Rankin-Gee writes poetically -- Alexandra Murphy We Love This Book Rankin-Gee's writing is fresh and thoughtful but with a beautiful undercurrent of sadness. This coming-of-age novel is wonderfully realised; when you open the covers you can feel the sea salt drying on your skin Emerald Street She writes like a cross between Francoise Sagan and Nell Dunn: strange dreamy and with razor sharp characterization Marie Claire The Last Kings of Sark is a sun-drenched, sharply nostalgic tale of our most defining years and how they shape us Stylist The Last Kings of Sark is a debut novel of rare subtly, and Rankin-Gee a wordsmith of talent beyond her years The National A stunning read, Rankin-Gee is one to watch Press Association