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Book SynopsisAnthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2013 he was the film critic for the
Independent. He is the author of six novels:
The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award;
Half of the Human Race;
The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize;
Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and
Mail on Sunday Book Clubs;
Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice, and
Eureka.
Trade ReviewThoughtful, beautifully observed and utterly compelling * Independent on Sunday *
A fascinating novel - very moving and beautifully nuanced and observed - it beguiles with a tremendous slow-burning power -- William Boyd
Brilliant...an involving meditation on passion, history and architecture * Daily Mail *
A love letter to Liverpool...ambitiously conceived... He has perfect pitch when it comes to the prose of each period, so much so that when I started the novel, I had the uncanny sense that what I was reading must have been salvaged from the 1940s. Its every line convinces -- Kate Kellaway * Observer *
The story has the resonant simplicity of a poem...
The Rescue Man turns the ongoing frenzy of construction and destruction into a quietly powerful metaphor of how we grow up * Guardian *
