Jones is fabulous at this, offering titbits of danger and discord while keeping a cool, matter of fact tone for the big horrors... This is, at heart, a moving love story

Jones's first novel, The Outcast, winner if the Costa First Novel Award, was a very hard act to follow. Her second, however, is even better... Jones's research is impeccable, and her emotional intelligence outstanding

In this exciting novel that resonates with contemporary parallels, Jones is unusual among women writers in focusing as much on the thrills and terrors of frontline action as its psychological fall out...it's a movie waiting to happen

Ambitious...uncannily good at the evocation of charged moments

Here Jones's talent really shows... In an excellent encounter with a military psychiatrist, the dialogue breaks like dry twigs

Heavy with menace and a dark streak of violence, it's as unforgiving as it is gripping

An absorbing story about emotional constraint and its dangers

Poignant and compelling, Sadie Jones's latest novel captures the claustrophobia of a passionate marriage that is overwhelmed by circumstance

Small Wars is a gripping account of emotional disintegration against a backdrop of emotional repression... A well-paced novel possessing both literary and moral integrity

Elegant, powerful with a huge emotional punch

This is an unforgiving, far from comfortable read, but a very compelling one

Meticulously researched and emotionally powerful, this is a second novel to be proud of.

Her prose is direct, undecorated, irresistibly dynamic and immensely powerful... Small Wars is at least as good as The Outcast. In fact, it is probably better, and praise doesn't come much higher

Jones writes brilliantly; you quickly inhabit Hal and Clara's world; from the dank, metallic smell of the interrogation room to the taste of White Ladies at the Limassol Club that linger long after you've reached the end

Sadie Jones pulls no punches in her description of the savagely unsophisticated island war. An exceptional book that shudders with the weight of human responsibility

With her second novel, Sadie Jones...confirms her brilliance

A timely read for the end of 2009

A novel that resonates with contemporary parallels

Sadie Jones again pulls no punches in this strong story.

Intelligent and moving novel

This impassioned tale is a gripping read

Jones is fabulous...offering titbits of danger and discord, yet keeping a cool matter-of-fact tone for the big horrors

Her second novel is a must-read; a devastating, brilliant account of what happens when everything a man believes in...begins to crumble

Full of danger and discord