Seascraper

Seascraper is powerful, poignant and poetic. I can’t recommend it enough

Benjamin Myers, award-winning author of Cuddy

It is a sensuous treat, this novel. So much care has been given to every detail – of shrimps and sea mists and sinkpits, of work and music. A language of the sea washes over every page

Ross Raisin, award-winning author of God's Own Country

I loved this hugely atmospheric story and its tender portrait of quiet Thomas Flett, a young man who secretly longs to make music, but whose dreams and prospects are constrained by his hard life, local community, upbringing and background. Then a passing American gives him – and us – a brief glimpse into what it means to aspire for something more. Haunting and beautiful, this is a very special novel indeed.

Sarah Easter Collins, author of Things Don't Break on Their Own

Benjamin Wood is a singular voice. Intense, original, unforgettable

Kelly Mullen

A quiet, unassuming book about honest work and modest dreams, about sons and their duty, and those brief, wonderful moments when we glimpse the possibility of living a different life. Benjamin Wood is a magnificent writer and I intend to read everything he has written

Douglas Stuart

Wood is up there with the very best... he packs more poetry into his opening paragraph than many a Booker-winner achieves in their entire oeuvre

Johanna Thomas-Corr, chief literary critic at The Times

A huge talent

Hilary Mantel

Britain's answer to Donna Tartt... a talent to treasure

Sunday Times

What a writer

Richard Osman

Wood deserves to be far better known

Irish Times

A seriously talented writer

Financial Times

A beautiful writer

Andrew O'Hagan