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Book SynopsisJim Crace is the prize-winning author of eleven books, including
Continent (winner of the 1986 Whitbread First Novel Award and the
Guardian Fiction Prize),
Quarantine (winner of the 1998 Whitbread Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and
Being Dead (winner of the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award). He lives in Birmingham.
Trade Review‘An extraordinarily moving love story’
Observer‘A work of near-genius’
Literary Review‘A swirling symphonic celebration of the glory of the natural world’
The Times‘Intensely imagined and deeply felt’ Hilary Mantel,
Sunday Times‘One of the most haunting books I read this year’ Carol Shields,
Guardian‘Magnificent’
Sunday Telegraph‘Astonishing’
Daily Telegraph‘Astonishing’
Daily Telegraph‘One of the most haunting books I read this year’ Carol Shields,
Guardian ‘A classic’
Independent on Sunday‘A work of near-genius’
Literary Review‘Magnificent’
Sunday Telegraph ‘Intensely imagined and deeply felt’ Hilary Mantel,
Sunday Times‘A swirling symphonic celebration of the glory of the natural world’
The Times
