Sadie Jones is the author of five novels, including The Outcast, winner of the Costa First Novel Award in Great Britain and a finalist for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize/Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; the enchanting, hard-hitting novel set on the island of Cyprus during the British occupation, Small Wars; her most successful, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests, beloved of Ann Patchett and Jackie Winspear, among other; the romantic novel set in London's glamorous theatre world, Fallout; and most recently, the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel, The Snakes. Sadie Jones lives in London.
"In lean, penetrating prose...Jones serves her themes most potently with an unflinching tumble of violent encounters that effectively transform Hal's liberation...into a haunting act of transcendence." -- New York Times Book Review"A taut and transfixing novel... [Jones is] a gifted young author." -- Boston Globe"Manages to be both rich and sparse...with just enough carefully selected detail to breathe vividness into the novel...In what reads as a quiet, calm work, Jones captures the essence of dehumanized warfare and renders inescapable parallels in a more modern world." -- Denver Post"What SMALL WARS shows us, and quite masterfully, is on how many fronts war takes its toll. Love, trust and intimacy in marriage become casualties. But so does war itself--our belief in it, that it's right and just and necessary; that it solves anything...Told with strikingly clear and muscular prose...Jones's narration is powerfully restrained, with a great deal of subterranean tension." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer"A darkly compelling account of honor and disillusionment with contemporary resonance...a confirmation of [Jones's] considerable talent." -- Kirkus Reviews"Ambitious and thematically charged...A timely novel, as well as a harrowing one" -- Christian Science Monitor"To this grave account of degradation--from great wars to small, from certainty to doubt, from romance to resignation--Jones brings surprising reserves of energy and finesse." -- Donna Rifkind, Washington Post
"A darkly compelling account of honor and disillusionment with
contemporary resonance...a confirmation of [Jones's] considerable
talent."--Kirkus Reviews
"A taut and transfixing novel... [Jones is] a gifted young
author."--Boston Globe
"Ambitious and thematically charged...A timely novel, as well as a
harrowing one"--Christian Science Monitor
"In lean, penetrating prose...Jones serves her themes most potently
with an unflinching tumble of violent encounters that effectively
transform Hal's liberation...into a haunting act of
transcendence."--New York Times Book Review
"To this grave account of degradation--from great wars to small,
from certainty to doubt, from romance to resignation--Jones brings
surprising reserves of energy and finesse."--Donna Rifkind,
Washington Post
"A stunning new novel.This richly imagined and warmly atmospheric
story convincingly demonstrates that small wars, like all wars, are
hell. This is historical fiction at its best. Highly recommended"
-- Library Journal
"A thought-provoking meditation that powerfully evokes both the
costs of waging war and the loving bonds of marriage" -- Booklist
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