- Published: 16 April 2015
- ISBN: 9781448161188
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 192
Out in the Open
- Published: 16 April 2015
- ISBN: 9781448161188
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 192
Fans of Cormac McCarthy and other novelists of the bleak but beautiful are going to love this book
Nic Bottomley, Bath Life
[A] searing, beautifully observed debut
Eithne Farry, Sunday Express
An intense, gripping, and emotional piece of work
Book Munch
Undeniably impressive and compelling because everything is everywhere so thoroughly and keenly imagined and realised
Allan Massie, Scotsman
What a novel! My goodness – I haven’t read anything this powerful for years and years… It will grab you and leave you trembling for a long time
Kathleen, Bath Chronicle
The writing is austere with flourishes of great beauty from an exceptional translator
Rosie Goldsmith, Independent
Carrasco provides a tense story of conflict, the tough but gratifying outcome of which remains unclear until the end. The harsh landscape, described in rich, slow prose, has moulded the characters and is the constant backdrop to human action
Michael Eaude, Literary Review
Its rural lexicon enriches a tale told with savage precision, and filled with memorable passages
Julius Purcell, The Times Literary Supplement
This novel's deep theme is a peculiar kind of heroism – that of claiming, in a world stripped to necessity, a human remainder of grace: the choice to bear witness to ideals that are more precious than survival and that exist only in our affirmation of them. Out in the Open is a harrowing, humane, and very beautiful book
Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You
Told in sparse, taut prose reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy... Passages of lovely writing coupled with the jaw-clenching tension and moments of hope make this a welcome introduction to a new voice
Publishers Weekly