Sophie Cooke

Praise for Under the Mountain

It is Cooke's dual ability to pick apart beautifully the daytime details of cosy family life while also exploring much loftier themes of God, truth, memory and love that set her aside as a mature, intensely emotiona ...

Sunday Times

This is a complex, clever novel which on the whole succeeds in its high ambitions

Time Out

Sublime writing... Cooke is excellent on unspoken family tensions and her characters' psychological motivations always ring true with a density that recalls Virginia Woolf. Of the younger generation of Scottish writ ...

Scottish Review of Books

It is Cooke's dual ability to pick apart beautifully the daytime details of cosy family life while also exploring much loftier themes of God, truth, memory and love that set her aside as a mature, intensely emotiona ...

Sunday Times

This is a complex, clever novel which on the whole succeeds in its high ambitions

Time Out

Sublime writing... Cooke is excellent on unspoken family tensions and her characters' psychological motivations always ring true with a density that recalls Virginia Woolf. Of the younger generation of Scottish writ ...

Scottish Review of Books

It is Cooke's dual ability to pick apart beautifully the daytime details of cosy family life while also exploring much loftier themes of God, truth, memory and love that set her aside as a mature, intensely emotiona ...

Sunday Times

This is a complex, clever novel which on the whole succeeds in its high ambitions

Time Out

Sublime writing... Cooke is excellent on unspoken family tensions and her characters' psychological motivations always ring true with a density that recalls Virginia Woolf. Of the younger generation of Scottish writ ...

Scottish Review of Books