Honest, brave and devastating - Out of Shadows is more than just memorable. It's impossible to look away

Powerful...relentless...gripping

A provocative story, powerfully written...all the heat and intensity of an African nation in flux burns on every page

This bleak, ferocious debut is a powerful, devastating read

Terrific debut novel

A powerful story

Excellent

A stunning debut novel without a false note. Accomplished and powerful, it changes the way you think

Butifully written and richly evocative…highly, highly recommended

Compelling

Out of Shadows is a rewarding “Young Adult” novel which deals with weighty issues in a compelling way, tying them in to the charged and competitive arena of teenage relationships

A devastating tale of subterfuge, poverty and privilege set in the cobbled streets of Victorian London.

Magnificent, bringing the Dickensian streets to grubby, teeming life

Cements his reputation as an accomplished and challenging novelist… Though it takes place 130 years ago, the questions that The Streets poses about how, as a society and individuals, we tackle deprivation arguably remain just as pertinent

Quinn blends his history, his political concerns, his ideals, his plot and his characters elegantly, with a light hand and the pace of a thriller

Quinn’s most mature novel yet… His picture of poverty’s shaming, dehumanizing effect is powerful, and the recurrent call for pity heartfelt. Ms Eliot and Mr Dickens would surely approve

Anthony Quinn is a terrific storyteller. He has a thrilling knack for turning familiar periods of history into something surprising and often shocking, and for making the fortunes and misfortunes of his characters matter

Displays the unsentimental yet powerful flair for romance that characterized his previous novel, Half of the Human Race. Perhaps most exciting of all, there is a sense that he is still writing within himself

Quinn brings the period in question vividly to life: his research is exemplary, and his subject absorbing

All the ingredients of an upmarket page-turner

Ambitious, gripping and disturbingly well done

Beyond its splendid feel for the era’s chat and patter, the novel pits philanthropy and opportunism, ideals and selfishness, bracingly at odds

This novel is refreshingly different and contains a cornucopia of wonderful material and evocative descriptions

The best book I’ve read in ages… You have to read it.