Peacetime

'As carefully crafted as the glass bowls that Jacob makes to find solace. It is a novel wrapped or revealed by layer after layer of inferences and resonances, all moving towards a telling symmetry, and the disclosure of simple yet emotional stories of suffering and survival'

James Hopkin, Independent on Sunday

'Edric's language has a mythic, almost biblical quality, where every word carries due weight and you have the eerie sense of things being left out . . . what makes Edric's writing profound is his refusal to be tidy or dogmatic . . . he is a great novelist'

John de Falbe, Spectator

'Peacetime gradually unravels the contradictory human impulses that bind lives . . . a moral dissection of loyalty, forgiveness and hatred'

James Urquhart, The Times

'A novel of ambition and skill, at once a historical meditation, an evocation of a disintegrating society and, perhaps most strikingly, a family melodrama'

Francis Gilbert, New Statesman

'Has a seriousness and a psychological edge that nine out of ten novelists would give their eye teeth to possess'

D.J. Taylor, The Sunday Times

'A marvel of psychological insight and subtly observed relations. Its spare, unadorned prose has poetic resonance'

Ian Thompson, Guardian