“Makes the conversations between her poets and the doctors at the hospital sound absolutely authentic… extends the boundaries of antiwar fiction in her eloquent novel.”—The New York Times
“Earns… a place on the shelf of WWI literature.”—Kirkus
“Extremely accomplished and intelligent… Barker is adept at dramatizing moral dilemmas that have no easy answers.”—Entertainment Weekly
“One of the most deserving winners of the prestigious Booker fiction prize in recent years.”—The New York Review of Books
