Press Reviews

• Sunday Times

  A powerful piece of writing, rich with the essence of a poor but beautiful country and a simple yet dignified people

• Jane Gardam

  A tremendous, ranging story, economical and distilled as poetry

• A. N. Wilson

  Daily Telegraph

  Quite simply a masterpiece . . . I am completely bowled over by it; by the power of its writing, by the vividness of its scene painting and by the stories it tells . . . This is a book which I go on rereading

• A. S. Byatt

  Its whole effect works slowly and mysteriously . . . a major, and rare, artistic achievement