The devastating follow-up to the massive bestseller The Outcast. What happens when everything a man believes in - the army, his country, his marriage - begins to crumble...
Sadie Jones is the critically acclaimed author of six novels. Her
first, The Outcast, won the Costa First Novel Award, was
shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and was a Richard and Judy Number
One bestseller. Her second, Small Wars, 2009, was longlisted for
the Orange Prize. The Uninvited Guests, was published in 2010. Also
a screenwriter, Sadie adapted The Outcast for BBC Television in
2014, directed by Iain Softley and starring George Mackay. Her
fourth novel, Fallout, came out the same year, and her fifth, The
Snakes in 2019. Her sixth novel, Amy and Lan, was published in July
2022.
Sadie is the daughter of the Jamaican screenwriter, novelist and
poet, Evan Jones, and British actress, Joanna Jones. She was born
and brought up in London, and is married to the architect, Tim
Boyd.
Jones is fabulous at this, offering titbits of danger and discord
while keeping a cool, matter of fact tone for the big horrors...
This is, at heart, a moving love story
*Sunday Times*
Jones's first novel, The Outcast, winner if the Costa First Novel
Award, was a very hard act to follow. Her second, however, is even
better... Jones's research is impeccable, and her emotional
intelligence outstanding
*The Times*
In this exciting novel that resonates with contemporary parallels,
Jones is unusual among women writers in focusing as much on the
thrills and terrors of frontline action as its psychological fall
out...it's a movie waiting to happen
*Independent*
Ambitious...uncannily good at the evocation of charged moments
*Guardian*
Here Jones's talent really shows... In an excellent encounter with
a military psychiatrist, the dialogue breaks like dry twigs
*Times Literary Supplement*
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