- Published: 14 September 2021
- ISBN: 9781529112276
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $22.99
Islands of Mercy
- Published: 14 September 2021
- ISBN: 9781529112276
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $22.99
A moving exploration of love and the sacrifices we're willing to make in its name
Joanne Finney, Good Housekeeping
An exhilarating exploration of love, life, loss and death... A thrilling and seductive story... Vivid and beguiling
Rowan Mantell, Eastern Daily Press
Another gratifyingly well-put-together work... Tremain's long sentences brim with a poised positivity...[and] add lightness to her fond depictions of these imperfect strivers
Francesca Carington, Sunday Telegraph, *Novel of the Week*
A hell of a read - so emotionally sophisticated, so deft with shade and light, more absorbing than most fiction I've read this year
Johanna Thomas-Corr, Sunday Times
Terrific
Louise Carpenter, The Times
A new book from Rose Tremain is always a cause for celebration. Her exceptionally well-crafted and deeply humane historical novels are invariably a joy and Islands of Mercy is no exception... A rich, rewarding and highly satisfying novel from one of our finest novelists.
Daunt Books
An enjoyable page-turner
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, The Times
Over a distinguished literary career, Rose Tremain has traversed genres with her customary flair... in her portrayal of the ways in which individual longing and frustration unfold against the constraints of forces beyond our control, Tremain has long been one of our most accomplished novelists, and here is further confirmation
Stephanie Merritt, The Observer
Rose Tremain gives Hilary Mantel a run for her money for the title of Britain's greatest living historical novelist... there are still few writers who can conjure up a version of the past that is so startlingly unfamiliar yet so convincing
Charlotte Heathcote, Sunday Express
Vivid, transgressive, explicit and kaleidoscopic
Rose Shepherd, Saga Magazine
Subtle, illuminating and captivating
Eithne Farry, Mail on Sunday