What makes it so appealing is the voice of Will Cooper, which is potent, wry, insightful and utterly convincing . . . as rich a fiction as it is an eventful one. - Andrew Rosenheim, Time Literary SupplementTHIRTEEN MOONS will provide the immense satisfaction of taking a literary journey of magnitude. Whether on a plane, in an office or curled in a window seat, readers who absorb Will's story will find their own lives enriched. THIRTEEN MOONS belongs to the ages. - LA TimesAlmost a decade since the publication of his bestseller Cold Mountain, Frazier has produced another no less-absorbing and richly textured account of America in the years leading up to and encompassing the Civil War. Frazier is adept not only at the set pieces. . . but also at the more intimate observations of people and places. It is this that makes his story both a powerful dramatisation of a shameful episode in American history and a compelling love story. - Christina Konig, The TimesIts narrative has a thoroughly human scale and informs just as much as it moves and entertains - Frank Egerton, The Times The history that Frazier hauntingly unwinds through Will is as melodic as it is melancholy, but the sublime love story is the narrative's true heart. - Publishers WeeklyFrazier's keen observations and unforced, unsentimental depictions of animals are wonderful ... like the western it references, it's far-ranging, hard-fighting and soft-hearted. - GuardianA novel whose prose is so carefully wrought that it reads like fragments of a long poem. - TelegraphFrazier is a timeless master magician who renders the texture of the landscape, emotion and history all excruciatingly real - Time Out