• "All the compulsion of a thriller... Once again the South African novelist returns to his great theme of a journey into the interior, physical and spiritual, which enables him to examine man's existence in a largely hostile universe"

    Bel Mooney, The Times
  • "Freshly, vividly and differently imagined as anything in his work to date"

    John Higgins, Guardian
  • "A moving, angry, exuberant journey into some of mankind's darkest dreams and the redemptive power of his most resilient hope"

    A.L.Kennedy, Scotsman