It will make you think, cry, rage and hope. It is Elif Shafak at her best * The New Statesman * Gloriously expansive and intellectually rich... a magnificent achievement * The Spectator * Richly evocative. A fascinating stream of storytelling. * Financial Times * Engrossing. I turned the pages hungrily, carried by Shafaks energetic prose and confident that it was heading towards a coherent and rewarding ending. As ever, Shafak did not disappoint. * I Paper * An absorbing novel. Shafak is a novelist whose interest in mapping the intricately related world and its history goes beyond literary device. * Guardian * Elif Shafak is a unique and powerful voice in world literature -- Ian McEwan Shafak makes a new home for us in words -- Colum McCann A writer of important, beautiful, painful, truthful novels -- Marian Keyes A brilliant, unforgettable novel, which raises big ideas of 'who owns the past' with nuance and complexity. Elif Shafak ties together diverse time periods and places in a way that seems both natural and wonderfully unexpected. -- Mary Beard Bright, vivid and timeless like rivers. -- Philippa Gregory
