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A heartbreaking novel, a book both beautiful and brutal . . . All that grief and sadness and misery has been turned into something tough, tender and beautifully sad.The Times

Leaves us gutted and marvelling: Life may be short, but it takes forever.New York Times

I think it’s the best first book I’ve read in many years.Karl Ove Knausgård, Guardian

Rarely does a debut novel establish its world with such sure-footedness, and Stuart’s prose is lithe, lyrical and full of revelatory descriptive insights.Alex Preston, Observer