[A] story of restrained emotions played out in a period setting among picturesque locations...Faulks gives every sign of being a real novelist, who thinks and feels through the written word.
Guardian

[A] story of restrained emotions played out in a period setting among picturesque locations...Faulks gives every sign of being a real novelist, who thinks and feels through the written word.
Guardian

This moving and profound novel is perfectly constructed, and admirable in its configurations of place and period
Times

This moving and profound novel is perfectly constructed, and admirable in its configurations of place and period
Times

An unusual and moving novel in which courage and abnegation are pitted against illicit but total love...a poised and well-judged work
Financial Times

An unusual and moving novel in which courage and abnegation are pitted against illicit but total love...a poised and well-judged work
Financial Times

[A] powerful story of love, conscience, will and desire
Observer

[A] powerful story of love, conscience, will and desire
Observer