Mountains of the Moon

A brilliant and sad book… The funniest book I’ve read in years.

Olivia Laing, New Statesman, Book of the Year

I think this will one day be considered a classic. It’s the gritty but tender tale of a damaged life, with prose that’s deft, quick and spirited, a plot that pulls like a freight train, and one of the best child narrators you’ll ever encounter

Samantha Harvey, author of ORBITAL, Week

A valorous and magnificent novel

Samantha Harvey

Compelling

Erica Wagner, The Times

An astonishingly enjoyable debut ... Mountains of the Moon does everything that novels can do, and does them in a very original way

Ophelia Field, Observer

Few 350-page, first-person novels - even fewer contemporary British novels - are unputdownable. This is one of them

Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

A startling debut

GQ

Sincere, resolute

Jonathan Barnes, Literary Review

This extraordinary and quite brilliant first novel describes a life that is bumping along the very bottom...The writing is wonderfully inventive, encompassing grim reality and wild, romantic fantasy, and the true magic lies in the way the author manages to present the fragments as a funny, charming, beautiful whole

Kate Saunders, The Times