- Published: 1 October 2013
- ISBN: 9780099575153
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $27.99
The Streets
- Published: 1 October 2013
- ISBN: 9780099575153
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $27.99
Ambitious, gripping and disturbingly well done.
Kate Saunders, The Times
Quinn’s most mature novel yet… His picture of poverty’s shaming, dehumanizing effect is powerful, and the recurrent call for pity heartfelt. Ms Eliot and Mr Dickens would surely approve.
Holly Kyte, Sunday Telegraph
Cements his reputation as an accomplished and challenging novelist… Though it takes place 130 years ago, the questions that The Streets poses about how, as a society and individuals, we tackle deprivation arguably remain just as pertinent.
Peter Stanford, Independent
Quinn blends his history, his political concerns, his ideals, his plot and his characters elegantly, with a light hand and the pace of a thriller.
Louisa Young, Daily Telegraph
Displays the unsentimental yet powerful flair for romance that characterized his previous novel, Half of the Human Race. Perhaps most exciting of all, there is a sense that he is still writing within himself.
Tom Cox, Sunday Times
Magnificent, bringing the Dickensian streets to grubby, teeming life.
Eithne Farry, Daily Mail
Anthony Quinn is a terrific storyteller. He has a thrilling knack for turning familiar periods of history into something surprising and often shocking, and for making the fortunes and misfortunes of his characters matter.
Juliet Nicholson, Evening Standard
Quinn brings the period in question vividly to life: his research is exemplary, and his subject absorbing.
Lucy Scholes, Observer
Anthony Quinn’s novels just get better... Parallels with contemporary London lurk just below the surface. This is not only an exciting thriller and a touching, stop-start love story but a seriously important book.
Sue Gaisford, Tablet
All the ingredients of an upmarket page-turner.
Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday
A story that brings alive an area of Camden that saw massive social change in a short space of time: the explosion of the railways and the shoe-horning of thousands of semi-starved people into slums provide a backdrop.
Dan Carrier, Camden New Journal
A devastating tale of subterfuge, poverty and privilege set in the cobbled streets of Victorian London.
Daily Record
Magnificent, bringing the Dickensian streets to grubby, teeming life
Eithne Farry, Daily Mail
Cements his reputation as an accomplished and challenging novelist… Though it takes place 130 years ago, the questions that The Streets poses about how, as a society and individuals, we tackle deprivation arguably remain just as pertinent
Peter Stanford, Independent
Quinn blends his history, his political concerns, his ideals, his plot and his characters elegantly, with a light hand and the pace of a thriller
Louisa Young, Daily Telegraph
Quinn’s most mature novel yet… His picture of poverty’s shaming, dehumanizing effect is powerful, and the recurrent call for pity heartfelt. Ms Eliot and Mr Dickens would surely approve
Holly Kyte, Sunday Telegraph
Anthony Quinn is a terrific storyteller. He has a thrilling knack for turning familiar periods of history into something surprising and often shocking, and for making the fortunes and misfortunes of his characters matter
Juliet Nicholson, Evening Standard
Displays the unsentimental yet powerful flair for romance that characterized his previous novel, Half of the Human Race. Perhaps most exciting of all, there is a sense that he is still writing within himself
Tom Cox, Sunday Times
Quinn brings the period in question vividly to life: his research is exemplary, and his subject absorbing
Lucy Scholes, Observer
All the ingredients of an upmarket page-turner
Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday
Ambitious, gripping and disturbingly well done
Kate Saunders, The Times
Beyond its splendid feel for the era’s chat and patter, the novel pits philanthropy and opportunism, ideals and selfishness, bracingly at odds
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
This novel is refreshingly different and contains a cornucopia of wonderful material and evocative descriptions
Good Book Guide
The best book I’ve read in ages… You have to read it.
Hilary Rose, The Times