Martin Sloane

It is rare to read a novel that pulses with such pleasure that you don't want it to end, but this is what Redhill's debut delivers

Independent

Often intriguing... Jolene's youthful crassness and belated recognit ion or everything she lost are sharply and movingly evoked.

Sunday Times

A first novel with a rich centre... not a word to spare or an image too many.

Montreal Gazette

Hauntingly good.

Elle

Redhill's mild prose is dense with powerful emotional insights. Like Martin's art, it inspires a feeling of stillness and calm, of looking down on things from above; while underneath rest layer upon layer of meaning, prompting reflection on the novel's images and understandings long after the last page is reached.

The Times

Redhill [has] a gift for studied lyricism, a complex kind of emotional intelligence and, most of all, a poet's understanding of the workings of time... a powerful meditation on the implications of memory and the vacancies opened up by the loss of love... Redhill paces this sad and oblique detective story with great heart and delicacy.

Observer

Reading "Martin Sloane" made me feel melancholic, hopeful, amused, energized, enlightened, unnerved, touched, and finally grateful that occasionally a writer comes along who gets real life just right.

New York Times

Beautifully structured, and shards of cleverness and humour run through it... hard to put down

TLS

A deeply moving first novel... profound and full of affection. It is a book of constant surprises.

Michael Ondaatje