The Amateur

Impossible to put down

GILLIAN McALLISTER

This sophisticated literary thriller scrutinises the peeling paint of picket-fence America

The Times

Dazzles as it devastates . . . turns over weighty subjects - sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress, familial dysfunction - with grace and wry humour. It’s a masterpiece

Publishers Weekly

It’s hard to think of any reason not to call this a perfect novel . . . Nabokov’s classic reinvented as a 1970s moral fable, with brilliantly developed characters and period detail.

Kirkus

Bohjalian demonstrates timely and empathic socially conscious bravery as he confronts the inherent imbalance of power in such situations and illuminates the devastating impact of such exploitation

Booklist

Effortless, emotional, gripping, and the most propulsive novel I've read in ages

Jenny Jackson, Stylist

A gripping read

The Northern Echo