Publishing News

30 July 2004

"Here is a compelling fictional treatment of a subject that beggars belief: child soldiers in Sierra Leone's civil war. This is fiction that reads uncomfortably like a factual account so well known have the terrible events become... The author conveys the odd dislocation of sensibility that inevitably comes about when you try to fathom such tragedy, not least because she recounts the story in such cultivated prose. A disturbing and sadly topical debut."

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