A gorgeous novel - witty, tender and true

A remarkable novel...beautifully translated... Her voice, compassionate yet always shrewd, with its sharp portrait of France at war and during the optimistic and confused Twenties and early Thirties, is always distinctive

Némirovsky's great bourgeois tragedy is modest in scale but epic in scope. Her highly distinctive style, the delicate but relentless accretion of finely observed detail, produces a story in which universal cataclysm mirrored in apparently insignificant personal destiny, to extraordinary resonant effect

A coolly crafted traditional family novel

Némirovsky's last stories are a living history of the occupation, written in real time

'Jeff Shaara's To the Last Man lets you live WWI in the air, in the mud, and in the councils of government in a way that makes you understand how the participants experienced it. Von Richtofen, Lufbery, Ludendorff, and Pershing come alive and their collective experience makes you wish you been there to watch it, but glad you didn't!'

Tells the slowly unfolding story of Baines' journey of self-discovery with great subtlety

Quinn has a cinematic eye for narrative scope... Like all good novels this book tells us something new

An absorbing tribute to the city and its unsung heroes

In a novel of cinematic denouements, Quinn has reclaimed an intriguing chapter of Liverpool's past

A real page-tuner

He [Anthony] hooks you in with his deep, complex characters; he meticulously sets the scene

A constantly engaging and witty novel from a tremendously clever writer.

Plausiby drawn....strong central characters, interesting subplots and well-sketched minor characters.

As idiosyncratic as it is ambitious...given shape and purpose by a true literary craftsman. The book both keeps you reading and makes you think.

I drank in Nigel Farndale's The Blasphemer in huge lungfuls, and mourned it when it was finished. For anyone who loved Saturday, Atonement or Birdsong, this is the generational novel at its best.