Reviews and Comments

Loved, loved, loved this book. Beautifully written and captivating, human-centred and utterly believable. A big win for a crime drama novel.

This is an extraordinary novel, a series of short stories linked in wonderfully inventive and intricate ways. The reader is taken through the decades, seeing choices and consequences. Betrayal, passion, love, tenacity, brittleness, and love... Everything is underpinned by that.

I loved this book. It absorbed me into different times and worlds, and left deep impressions in a number of ways.

I loved this book. Taking as the starting point an unsustainable agri-business model that will be familiar to anyone who follows 'contemporary' British agriculture practice, the book charts the progress of a farm towards a nature-friendly destination.

The writing is quite beautiful in its description of nature, in hundreds of different ways. The passion of the author clearly shines through, and I hope that other land owners have been inspired as a result.

I finished this book on a trip to the Abergavenny area, like much of Wales over-grazed and an ecosystem desert. There is so much for us to learn and appreciate from nature, and this book has been an amazing insight into possibility.

I really enjoyed this. A lively, intriguing and dark tale of actions and consequences that cascade down the years. A satisfying closure of the circle right at the end.

I found this mostly baffling and a bit of a slog; a good start - really interesting and drew me in. But then it went off on tangents that had me struggling to focus.

Plenty to uncover in this novel that keeps building tension towards the denouement

I can't help but enjoy these sorts of book. Not challenging but interesting and amusing. Good for when you just need some light escapism.

I enjoyed this suburban whodunit. Good cast of characters, carefully constructed plot and constantly ratcheting tension

It's not an idle read, but the concepts are intriguing and there is plenty of humour in the writing. A worthy successor to Children of Time

Entertaining enough, and even better, I could follow it after watching the film!

Not sure I would be able to go too many books further into this universe (maybe with more film support ha!)

I don't mind a suspension of reality for many different types of novel, but for a crime novel the central premise has to be self consistent. Not for this novel; but it careens along on a reasonably entertaining track.

For all this book's beautiful, poetic narrative, and hugely imaginative premise, I couldn't engage with it fully. I was too impatient for the plot, and I had to make myself read it rather than jump eagerly in for the next installment.