‘I've already bought copies for others, and am recommending this one for book clubs and gifts too.’

‘I loved this book. it is beautifully told with every character feeling totally real. I could not put this one down.’

‘I could not stop reading the book, the Hatton family and their life story mesmerized me and I learnt so much about the most important perspectives of life. Fantastically written.’

‘A whole, vividly conjured world. From the Novel’s magical first line to its moving conclusion, we come to know and care deeply about a family trying to make a home amid a landscape, and life, of grief and wonder.’

‘The Hatton family grabbed hold of my imagination and wouldn’t let go.’

‘Higgs draws her characters with clarity and truth, and pitches the narrative forward with a quiet but deep rhythm belonging to the time and landscape she describes. What we want for them is what we want for ourselves, to find a place in our family, our community and our time.’

‘A jewel of a novel: luminous, vivid, and deftly shaped. I felt, as I read, that there was ordinary time, and there was paradise time, and that I could have stayed forever on that bright hillside.’