A brilliant success... It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling
Financial Times

A brilliant success... It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling
Financial Times

A brilliant success... It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling
Financial Times

'Brilliant - an artist of great imaginative power'
Sunday Times

'A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again'
New Statesman

Compulsively readable
Irish Times

Compulsively readable
Irish Times

Compulsively readable
Irish Times

A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again
New Statesman

A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again
New Statesman

A splendid, lucid, profoundly satisfying work of art, a book which I want almost immediately to read again
New Statesman

'A brilliant success. It is a passionate piece of writing as well as an immaculate example of storytelling'
Financial Times

'Compulsively readable'
Irish Times

Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power
Sunday Times

Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power
Sunday Times

Brilliant...an artist of great imaginative power
Sunday Times

Marvellous 1969 novel... You can read this book again and again, always finding something new and always falling in love with the hapless Charles.
Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

Marvellous 1969 novel... You can read this book again and again, always finding something new and always falling in love with the hapless Charles.
Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

Kate Gunning 23 December 2010

An epic love story, published in the 1960s but set in mid-Victorian Dorset, featuring the unforgettable figure of Sarah Woodruff, the romantic heroine of the title, first glimpsed standing at the end of the Cobb in Lyme Regis, gazing out to sea. John Fowles' brilliant achievement is to have written an utterly compelling narrative whilst weaving around it a running commentary on the Victorian era he evokes, the role of the author, and the techniques of fiction itself.