A book for our times... A moving, important novel

The world that Parks evokes is densely textured, a patchwork or memories, desires and declarations that brilliantly captures the complexity of consciousness

A dashing mixture of thriller, social comedy and dysfunctional family saga... A virtuoso piece, a tour de force, highly enjoyable

A grimly affecting novel of adultery and family disintegration... A brilliant, even contentious, novel of bleak humour and undeniable power

Parks is a master of emotional complexity

This is a deftly written novel bringing together parallel stories exploring prejudice and its effects on the different generations

Ambitious and complex . . . Newbery explores with great sensitivity displacement, alienation, belonging and racism . . .

Very witty with some fabulous one-liners, beautifully well-written and emotionally insightful - definitely worth a read

The Escape is an utterly glorious piece of work...Thirlwell has with this superb book also staked a rightful claim as a literary phenomenon

Thirwell's novel elegantly portrays the ageing Haffner's thrilling attempts to escape from lovers, the mafia, his family and himself

The writing is polished and full of allusions

Brilliant

An enjoyably black and bracingly unsentimental novel

Brilliant black comedy