Rules For Old Men Waiting

A lean, quietly elegiac postscript to the protaganist's existence... told in simple, restrained prose, this is a novel brimming with humanity - one to savour

Hephzibah Anderson, Observer

A quarter of a century in the making, Peter Pouncey's first novel is laden with the fruits of a lifetime's reflection... The detail reveals Pouncey as a brilliant miniaturist

Guardian

A wonderful novel of a man's experience- touches every chord... The book is charged with the excitement of intelligent existence... and distinguished, above all, by its great humanity

Shirley Hazzard, author of The Great Fire

An intense, memorable little book

The Times

In its reach, intelligence and power it recalls de Lampedusa's The Leopard and Marai's Embers

Ward S. Just, author of An Unfinished Season

Mr Pouncey writes with enough style and elegance to bring envy into the heart of many a good novelist

Norman Mailer

Poignant...profound and moving. The work of a superior intelligence

Irish Independent

Pouncey has a real gift for telling war stories...a meditation on nature and old age

Daily Express

Spare and elegant prose

Sunday Times

Uplifting yet unbearably sad

Literary Review

Written with admirable restraint and composed with sturdy, elegant prose, it's an object lesson in the fact that, sometimes, less can be more. Human and moving

Daily Mail