- Published: 15 November 2014
- ISBN: 9780099575849
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $29.99
Snake Road
- Published: 15 November 2014
- ISBN: 9780099575849
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $29.99
Wise, memorable and written with a lightsome delicacy... It is wonderfully wry and occasionally laced with despair and menace
Alan Warner, Herald
Beautiful prose and anguish conveyed throughout the text in a tender, yet irrevocably witty and sometimes self-depreciating manner…Peebles writes with an effortless empathy towards common everyday emotional and family struggles. This intergenerational journey is quite beautifully written, yet in an easy to follow and light style
Nudge
I ADORED Snake Road. Couldn't put it aside...so gentle and wise and uniquely observed. There can't be another Scottish novel, or indeed contemporary one, I will like more this year... a brilliant and beautifully written novel
Alan Warner
A deeply humane tale of memory, loss and the struggle to understand a family’s past
Metro
The "sacred geometry" of ageing and the timeless measuring out of love are what sustain this subtle, beautiful book
Guardian
A brilliantly perceptive novel of loss and love
Scotsman
Writing of this extraordinary quality and depth is only ever to be welcomed, embraced and, hopefully, suitably rewarded
Scotland on Sunday
Perceptive and humane, this is a memorable novel
Good Book Guide
Writing of this extraordinary quality and depth is only ever to be welcomed, embraced and, hopefully, suitably rewarded
Lesley McDowell, Scotland on Sunday (Spectrum)
The recent death of Iain Banks left a gaping hole in contemporary literature, but nowhere was the loss felt more than in his native Scotland. Banks took ordinary situations and rendered them extraordinary; a talent that fellow Scot Sue Peebles, whose first novel won both the Scottish and Saltire book awards, shares in spades… The "sacred geometry" of ageing and the timeless measuring out of love are what sustain this subtle, beautiful book.
Catherine Taylor, Guardian
I ADORED Snake Road. Couldn't put it aside...so gentle and wise and uniquely observed. There can’t be another Scottish novel, or indeed contemporary one, I will like more this year... a brilliant and beautifully written novel.
Alan Warner
Brilliantly perceptive novel of loss and love
David Robinson, The Scotsman
A beautiful, brilliant novel destined to cement Sue's place as one of the leading lights of the Scottish literary scene
Waterstones
Deeply humane tale of memory, loss and the struggle to understand a family’s past… It’s a novel of generous warmth
Ben Felsenburg, Metro Herald
Peebles' keen eye for social observation adds a comic touch to the narrative, expertly showing how black humour is used in bleak times.
Rowena McIntosh, The Skinny
Peebles writes poetic prose, capturing Aggie's imaginative character and her need to find meaning in the puzzle of circumstances she finds herself in. The insight into dementia and its impact upon a family is poignant, with Aggie desperate to recapture the history of a beloved Gran who is disappearing in front of her eyes. The novel strongly evokes the Scottish countryside, its link to the past and the secrets it keeps. The story may be a slow burner, but keep going because its gentle pace builds up to a satisfying conclusion
Penny Batchelor, We Love This Book