An ingenious medieval mystery with an unforgettable narrator, by
one of the UK's most acclaimed and daring writers.
Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels The Wilderness, All is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease- A Year of Not Sleeping. Her work has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women's Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. The Wilderness was awarded the Betty Trask Prize. She is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
My Ancient Mariner novel, the book I’m destined to traipse around
fervently pressing into people’s hands . . . [The Western Wind is
a] breathtaking exploration of guilt, communal and individual,
secrecy and power . . . It made me gasp, and when I’d finished it,
I started it again.
*Times Literary Supplement **Books of the Year 2018***
Beautifully rendered, deeply affecting, thoroughly thoughtful
*New York Times*
A rich and sumptuous delight . . . Even the most glowing reviews of
[Samantha Harvey's] work have tended to be accompanied by a rueful
acknowledgement of how underrated she is. The Western Wind will
surely mean that she’s not underrated anymore.
*Daily Telegraph*
A wonderful creation . . . less like reading a novel and more akin
to time travel — something I’ve only previously encountered in the
work of Hilary Mantel.
*Financial Times*
So ingenious in its plotting and characterisation that it begs to
be read twice – the second reading a confirmation of what is
slowly, tantalisingly revealed in the first. *****
*Express*
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