- Published: 5 May 2016
- ISBN: 9781473510920
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 10 hr 37 min
- Narrator: David Rintoul
- RRP: $24.99
A Country Road, A Tree
Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Memorial Prize for Historical Fiction
- Published: 5 May 2016
- ISBN: 9781473510920
- Imprint: Transworld Digital
- Format: Audio Download
- Length: 10 hr 37 min
- Narrator: David Rintoul
- RRP: $24.99
In this worthy successor to Longbourn, she [Baker] skillfully captures Beckett’s world, the rhythms of his bare-bones prose, and the edginess of his point of view.
Publishers Weekly
Taking its title from Beckett's most famous play, Waiting for Godot, Baker's historical drama deftly explores the psyche of one of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century.
Booklist
Perfectly captures the deprivation, despair and constant creeping fear of an occupied people.
Red Magazine Must-Read of the Month
This exquisitely crafted novel re-creates the World War II peregrinations of Samuel Beckett and the volatile Frenchwoman who became his life's companion
Oprah Magazine
Insightful . . . beautifully paced . . . authentic
The Irish Times
Skilful . . . daring . . . an extraordinary story
The Guardian
Beautifully written, empathetic and unflinching, it is very, very good
Daily Mail
[It is] the unexpected Beckett that is on show here. Baker pays tribute to a man who joined the French Resistance, narrowly escaped the Gestapo, fled south on foot and went into hiding, and was eventually awarded the Croix de Guerre
The Times
vivid and well-wrought
Times Literary Supplement
‘Baker . . . creates a compellingly real experience out of Beckett’s work in the French underground . . . Her writing is assured and often intense . . . enthralling.’
The Santa Fe New Mexican
A fascinating fictional account of Samuel Beckett's wartime years
IAN RANKIN