Sacrifices

An extremely brave book, an unflinching examination of a certain kind of Englishman that has an old-fashioned emotional resonance unusual in contemporary British fiction

Matt Thorne, Sunday Telegraph

Fishwick often instructs and delights as he examines the hole in human knowledge

Anita Sethi, Times Literary Supplement

The prose and characters on both occasions seems to have wandered...from the outskirts of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene novels

Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph

In a work which simultaneously conforms to the broad contours of classical tragedy and evokes recent events in British politics, Fishwick invites compassion for his protagonist as well as for those whose lives have been blighted by his actions

Jem Poster, Guardian

[D]emonstrating absolute mastery of voice, character and plot. I found it reminiscent of Ruth Rendell's alter ego Barbara Vine at the top of her form, playing out the threads of its psychodramas with such deftness and precision that suspense, albeit of a very nuanced kind, is held until the very end

Jane Housham, Daily Express

It belongs very much to that category of Ian McEwan-esque contemporary novel

Katherine Hunt, Time Out

It is a novel about concealment in which Fishwick, expertly controlling the flow of information, uses a hubbub of voices to potray the depths and shades of a single person.

Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, The FT

A labyrinthine novel about lust and tragedy...The novel is bound to touch and surprise with its bright moments of lyricism

Inigo Wallace, Literary Review

The pleasure lies in savouring Fishwick's prose. He has a real gift for capturing the different voices of the characters... This is a literary, melancholic novel

The Times