Small Wars
- Published: 1 May 2010
- ISBN: 9781409079255
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
A novel that resonates with contemporary parallels
Emma Hagestadt, Independent
A timely read for the end of 2009
Katherine Whitbourn, Daily Mail
Ambitious...uncannily good at the evocation of charged moments
Guardian
An absorbing story about emotional constraint and its dangers
Daily Telegraph
Elegant, powerful with a huge emotional punch
Woman and Home
Full of danger and discord
Sunday Times Summer Reading
Heavy with menace and a dark streak of violence, it's as unforgiving as it is gripping
Metro
Her prose is direct, undecorated, irresistibly dynamic and immensely powerful... Small Wars is at least as good as The Outcast. In fact, it is probably better, and praise doesn't come much higher
Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday
Her second novel is a must-read; a devastating, brilliant account of what happens when everything a man believes in...begins to crumble
Cath Kidson Magazine
Here Jones's talent really shows... In an excellent encounter with a military psychiatrist, the dialogue breaks like dry twigs
Stephanie Cross, Times Literary Supplement
In this exciting novel that resonates with contemporary parallels, Jones is unusual among women writers in focusing as much on the thrills and terrors of frontline action as its psychological fall out...it's a movie waiting to happen
Emma Hagestadt, Independent
Intelligent and moving novel
Woman and Home
Jones is fabulous at this, offering titbits of danger and discord while keeping a cool, matter of fact tone for the big horrors... This is, at heart, a moving love story
Sunday Times
Jones is fabulous...offering titbits of danger and discord, yet keeping a cool matter-of-fact tone for the big horrors
Sunday Times
Jones writes brilliantly; you quickly inhabit Hal and Clara's world; from the dank, metallic smell of the interrogation room to the taste of White Ladies at the Limassol Club that linger long after you've reached the end
Claire Longrigg, Psychologies
Jones's first novel, The Outcast, winner if the Costa First Novel Award, was a very hard act to follow. Her second, however, is even better... Jones's research is impeccable, and her emotional intelligence outstanding
Kate Saunders, The Times
Meticulously researched and emotionally powerful, this is a second novel to be proud of.
Emma Lee Potter, Express
Poignant and compelling, Sadie Jones's latest novel captures the claustrophobia of a passionate marriage that is overwhelmed by circumstance
Eithne Farry, Marie Claire
Sadie Jones again pulls no punches in this strong story.
Sally Cousins, Sunday Telegraph
Sadie Jones pulls no punches in her description of the savagely unsophisticated island war. An exceptional book that shudders with the weight of human responsibility
Kerry Fowler, Good Housekeeping
Small Wars is a gripping account of emotional disintegration against a backdrop of emotional repression... A well-paced novel possessing both literary and moral integrity
Sunday Telegraph
This impassioned tale is a gripping read
James Smart, The Guardian
This is an unforgiving, far from comfortable read, but a very compelling one
Tina Jackson, Metro
With her second novel, Sadie Jones...confirms her brilliance
Books Quarterly