It will make you think, cry, rage – and hope. It is Elif Shafak at her best
The New Statesman
Gloriously expansive and intellectually rich... a magnificent achievement
The Spectator
Richly evocative. A fascinating stream of storytelling.
Financial Times
Engrossing. I turned the pages hungrily, carried by Shafak’s energetic prose and confident that it was heading towards a coherent and rewarding ending. As ever, Shafak did not disappoint.
I Paper
An absorbing novel. Shafak is a novelist whose interest in mapping the intricately related world and its history goes beyond literary device.
Guardian
Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature
- Ian McEwan,
Shafak makes a new home for us in words
- Colum McCann,
A writer of important, beautiful, painful, truthful novels
- Marian Keyes,
A brilliant, unforgettable novel, which raises big ideas of 'who owns the past' with nuance and complexity. Elif Shafak ties together diverse time periods and places in a way that seems both natural and wonderfully unexpected.
- Mary Beard,
Bright, vivid and timeless like rivers.
- Philippa Gregory,