Crossing the Lines: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Enthralling, a joy to read ... immensely satisfying ... [it] is a novel to live in. By that I mean of course that it's one that enriches the reader's life. (Allan Massie, Scotsman)

THE SOLDIER'S RETURN

'His masterpiece' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times' Books of the Year (Peter Kemp, Sunday Times' Books of the Year)

Unsentimental, truthful and wonderful (Beryl Bainbridge, Independent's Books of the Year)

An outstandingly good novel ... One of the best English novels of the last ten years ... utterly credible, utterly compelling and very enjoyable (Allan Massie, Scotsman)

A SON OF WAR

A novel of remarkable power and grace ... his authenticity is astounding (Roy Hattersley, The Times)

Shot through with blazing integrity and authenticity (Val Hennessy, Daily Mail)

'He has laid the foundations for one of the finest literary sagas of post-war Britain.'
David Robson, Sunday Telegraph

(David Robson, Sunday Telegraph)

Crossing the Lines is both richly detailed and extraordinarily poignant (The Sunday Telegraph)

Set in Britain during the 1950s, this moving and evocative novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives. As a teenager in the small northern town of Wigton, Joe Richardson falls in love with Rachel, just when her life is about to be uprooted. While his parents, Sam and Ellen, face the frontiers of middle age, Joe finds himself drawn by the intoxicating world outside home, and swept into situations that seem beyond his control. Vividly conveying the spirit of the mid-century and the profound social changes taking place at the time, this is a masterly successor to the award-winning THE SOLDIER'S RETURN and A SON OF WAR.