Now We Shall Be Entirely Free One of The Times' Best Novels of the 21st Century
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Andrew Miller's first novel, Ingenious Pain, was published by Sceptre in 1997. It won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Grinzane Cavour Prize for the best foreign novel published in Italy. It has been followed by Casanova, Oxygen, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award in 2001, The Optimists, One Morning Like a Bird, Pure, which won the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2011, The Crossing, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, The Slowworm's Song and The Land in Winter, which won the Winston Graham Historical Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025. Andrew Miller's novels have been published in translation in twenty countries. Born in Bristol in 1960, he currently lives in Somerset.<b>Scary, mysterious and thoughtful</b> - the world of Jane Austen bespattered by mud, atrocity and driving rain
New Statesman
<b>Scary, mysterious and thoughtful</b> - the world of Jane Austen bespattered by mud, atrocity and driving rain
New Statesman
A<b> propulsive, beautifully written</b> investigation into atrocity, guilt and new beginnings
Guardian
A<b> propulsive, beautifully written</b> investigation into atrocity, guilt and new beginnings
Guardian
<b>A high grade cat-and-mouse manhunt</b> that covers the length of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars - a sort of <i>The 39 Steps</i> with added malice . . . <b>pitch-perfect</b>
New Statesman
<b>A high grade cat-and-mouse manhunt</b> that covers the length of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars - a sort of <i>The 39 Steps</i> with added malice . . . <b>pitch-perfect</b>
New Statesman
The plot grips and surprises. Miller's prose remains poetic and taut with an eye for the telling detail . . . he excels at creating characters who are defined, not limited, by a specific time and place, not just Lacroix, Calley and Medina but the minor players too. Historical or otherwise, <b>this is fiction - storytelling - at its best</b>
Spectator
The plot grips and surprises. Miller's prose remains poetic and taut with an eye for the telling detail . . . he excels at creating characters who are defined, not limited, by a specific time and place, not just Lacroix, Calley and Medina but the minor players too. Historical or otherwise, <b>this is fiction - storytelling - at its best</b>
Spectator
<b>Excellent </b>. . . a novel of delicately shifting moods, a pastoral comedy and passionate romance story alternating with a blackly menacing thriller. It is also a book of ideas: about male violence, the impact of war and the price of freedom
Observer
<b>Excellent </b>. . . a novel of delicately shifting moods, a pastoral comedy and passionate romance story alternating with a blackly menacing thriller. It is also a book of ideas: about male violence, the impact of war and the price of freedom
Observer
A profound exploration of culpability, written in prose that comes singing off the page . . . <b>a compelling read and an important literary achievement</b>
New Statesman
A profound exploration of culpability, written in prose that comes singing off the page . . . <b>a compelling read and an important literary achievement</b>
New Statesman
<b>Enthralling </b>. . . Miller paints a richly detailed portrait of a society in some ways familiar, in others impossibly strange
Financial Times
<b>Enthralling </b>. . . Miller paints a richly detailed portrait of a society in some ways familiar, in others impossibly strange
Financial Times
I much enjoyed <i>Now We Shall Be Entirely Free</i>, in which Andrew Miller returned to more orthodox historical fiction after 2015's <i>The Crossing </i>and triumphantly proved there's plenty of life in the old form yet
Spectator
I much enjoyed <i>Now We Shall Be Entirely Free</i>, in which Andrew Miller returned to more orthodox historical fiction after 2015's <i>The Crossing </i>and triumphantly proved there's plenty of life in the old form yet
Spectator
Both a ripping yarn and a skilful mediation on absence . . . <b>The pacing of his story is excellent; his style is crisp; his apprehension of pain is arresting; and his ability to show people trembling at the edge of unreason is compelling</b>
Guardian
Both a ripping yarn and a skilful mediation on absence . . . <b>The pacing of his story is excellent; his style is crisp; his apprehension of pain is arresting; and his ability to show people trembling at the edge of unreason is compelling</b>
Guardian
In his <b>luminous </b>prose, Costa Prize winner Andrew Miller conjures three very different men, but their experiences have all been traumatising. Manhunt and pilgrimage, the tale unfolds into a gripping and, ultimately, surprising exploration of the inner battleground
Daily Mail
In his <b>luminous </b>prose, Costa Prize winner Andrew Miller conjures three very different men, but their experiences have all been traumatising. Manhunt and pilgrimage, the tale unfolds into a gripping and, ultimately, surprising exploration of the inner battleground
Daily Mail
Miller recreates the past so vividly that reading the novel is never less than a <b>fully immersive</b> experience . . . particularly enjoyable and satisfying
The Times
Miller recreates the past so vividly that reading the novel is never less than a <b>fully immersive</b> experience . . . particularly enjoyable and satisfying
The Times
Since the publication in 1997 of his first novel . . . his books have revealed a powerful imagination at work, and one that is also rooted in the precisely yet poetically described realities of daily life . . . In his new novel, he succeeds in creating <b>an involving, suspenseful drama and a moving portrait</b> of a man in search of redemption from the violence of his past
Sunday Times
Since the publication in 1997 of his first novel . . . his books have revealed a powerful imagination at work, and one that is also rooted in the precisely yet poetically described realities of daily life . . . In his new novel, he succeeds in creating <b>an involving, suspenseful drama and a moving portrait</b> of a man in search of redemption from the violence of his past
Sunday Times
Miller's beautiful sentences are <b>a joy to read </b>and his engrossing novel, teeming with vivid historical detail, is <b>as suspenseful as any thriller</b>
Mail on Sunday
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free: a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller
One of The Times' Best Novels of the 21st Century
A book of the year: Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, BBC History Magazine
'Excellent' Observer
'This is fiction - storytelling - at its best' Spectator
'That rarest of treats - propulsive storytelling in sensuous prose' Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures and Shy Creatures
When Captain John Lacroix returns to England after fighting Napoleon's forces in Spain, he is not the man he was. A survivor of the British arm's infamous retreat to Corunna, he carries with him a shameful secret, one he will travel to the outer reaches of Scotland to forget.
Lacroix's journey to the Hebrides leads to encounters with thieves and free thinkers, to unexpected friendships, even love. But as the short northern summer reaches its zenith, the shadow of the enemy is creeping closer - unbeknownst to Lacroix, a vicious English corporal and a Spanish officer are on his trail. Freedom, for John Lacroix, will come at a high price.
Winner of the Highland Book Prize | Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize
Praise for Andrew Miller
'Andrew Miller's writing is a source of wonder and delight' Hilary Mantel
'One of our most skilful chroniclers of the human heart and mind' Sunday Times
'One of the best writers at work today' Telegraph
'A wonderful storyteller' Spectator
'One of those rare novelists who can rock up in any time and place and convincingly inhabit that particular historical moment' The Times