Evocative...Flitting between their separate pasts and precarious shared present, Cloke weaves a tale whose opacity feels pleasingly apiece with its foggy backdrop.

Brilliant

A masterfully written novel, by turns sparkling and melancholic, with vivid characters and painfully beautiful imagery

An addictive page turner

A book to watch

A must-read novel

Beguiling... An absorbing, entertaining read: one that will see you nicely through a few long dark evenings

An emotionally powerful, highly charged story... a fascinating story with an intriguing premise

Like eavesdropping on a conversation in a bar...This is a really cleverly structured and well-crafted novel

An intriguing drama and romance

This is a harrowing, but gripping love story

Wonderfully enticing.

Individual scenes are often gripping, shocking or moving.

The bloody horrors of conflict are captured with visceral aplomb in this fine, minimalist novel.

Some of the most vividly evoked battle scenes I've read – he doesn't shy away from taking risks … chilling and touching all at the same time.

Foulds has the literary intelligence to turn the commonplace on its head.

A high-class thriller … Foulds has a literary novelist's feel for [Sicily's] harsh beauty.

Foulds’ prose is superb… It reads like Catch-22 written by Evelyn Waugh.

It’s an ambitious book and the writer relates his story with poetic precision

Told in a language that is both lyrical and stark The Tusk that Did the Damage should win Tania James praise and laurels from those readers who long for a more penetrating look at environmental issues and the moral questions which accompany them’.