The Siege

A Tolstoyan epic of love and war; life and death...she writes beautifully

Sunday Telegraph

Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better

Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph

Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should...A world-class novel

Antony Beevor, The Times

Literary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there

Sunday Telegraph

A remarkable parable of human survival against the odds

Mail on Sunday

In this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece

Independent

A searing historical novel. Dunmore vividly evokes the unbelievable cold, privations and violence as people struggle to survive...an extraordinary description of the horrors of the time

Sunday Express

An important as well as a thrilling work of art

Independent on Sunday

A moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful

Daily Mail

A harrowing, urgent narrative of cold, starvation and the battle to survive

Sunday Times

A Tolstoyan epic of love and war; life and death...she writes beautifully

Sunday Telegraph

Remarkable, affecting...there are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better

Rachel Cusk, Daily Telegraph

Utterly convincing. A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances. The story of their struggle to survive appears simple, as all great literature should...A world-class novel

Antony Beevor, The Times

Literary writing of the highest order set against a background of suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there

Richard Overy, Sunday Telegraph

A remarkable parable of human survival against the odds

Mail on Sunday

In this wise, humane and beautifully written novel she has written a masterpiece

Independent

A searing historical novel. Dunmore vividly evokes the unbelievable cold, privations and violence as people struggle to survive...an extraordinary description of the horrors of the time

Sunday Express

An important as well as a thrilling work of art

Independent on Sunday

A moving and powerful novel in which Dunmore employs all her celebrated descriptive and narrative skills...beautiful

Daily Mail

A harrowing, urgent narrative of cold, starvation and the battle to survive

Sunday Times