"Highly charged
atmosphere"
"As soon as I read it I
knew it was the winner"
Dr. Kasia
Boddy, University College London.
"Claire-
Marie was a very clear
choice......She
is a real find"
Marion Sinclair, Napier College Edinburgh.
"A dark and brooding historical
thriller......
......it succeeds triumphantly, a testament to its beautiful
plotting"
Don Paterson, poet, musician and writer.
Winner of the TS Eliot & The Whitbread Prizes for Poetry.
and as:
"An
impeccably researched work which bore its research lightly,
given it is an historical novel."
also:
"Watson's style is lucid and her characters have been
developed naturally and sympathetically."
THE
BOOK PRIZE
