Superior novel...wincingly precise in his imagery and technically adept... <b>An electric and darkly gleeful read</b>
Daily Mail
<b>An immensely clever, tragicomic novel</b>...a rich meditation on past and present colonial politics... What resonates for me is what I greatly admire in all Thorpe's work: the complex depth, and the texture and poetry of his storytelling language
Financial Times
An intimate depiction of family life... Vivid and luminous
Independent on Sunday
Because this is Adam Thorpe, there are only two things you know for certain: that the writing will be gorgeous, silky-smooth; and that the plot will be entirely original, defying categorisation...enjoy
Sunday Telegraph
An intricate fiction which reminds us gently that war wrecks lives in ways too tangled to anticipate
Times Literary Supplement
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Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956. His first novel, Ulverton, appeared in 1992, and he has published two books of stories, six poetry collections, and nine further novels, most recently Flight (2012).
www.adamthorpe.net