***Out now: Andrew Miller’s new novel THE LAND IN WINTER***
‘ANDREW MILLER’S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT’ Hilary Mantel
‘ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND’ Sunday Times
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award
‘Astoundingly good’
The Times
‘Dazzling’
Observer
‘Timeless’
Spectator
The extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller – a highly imaginative, atmospheric first novel
At the dawn of the Enlightenment, a man is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian society to become a brilliant surgeon. Yet as a human being he fails, for he can no more feel love and compassion than pain. Until, en route to St Petersburg to inoculate the Empress Catherine, he meets his nemesis and saviour.
PRAISE FOR ANDREW MILLER
‘Unique, visionary, a master at unmasking humanity’
Sarah Hall
‘A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts’
Independent on Sunday
‘A highly intelligent writer, both exciting and contemplative’
The Times
‘A wonderful storyteller’
Spectator
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Reviews
Dazzling . . . Miller tackles notions of mortality and humanity to brilliant effect . . . truly wonderful
A true rarity: a debut novel which is original, memorable, engrossing and subtle
Strange, unsettling, sad, beautiful and profound . . . the sense of period is brilliantly handled
More than merits comparison with the likes of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Patrick Süskind's Perfume . . . a blistering debut
The novel's evocation of the period, down to the finest detail, is thoroughly confident . . . a startling novel
A finely wrought and provocative novel
Impressive
Gripping . . . a dazzling debut
A really remarkable first novel, original, powerfully written . . . Miller's narrative is gripping and his imagination extraordinary
An extraordinary first novel . . . one is constantly delighted with strange and vivid imagery, fresh and startling metaphors, flashes of insight, deft twists of plot and resonant variations on dominant themes . . . a mature novel of ideas soaked in the sensory detail of its turbulent times
Exceptionally intelligent and elegant . . . remarkable for its feeling and its humane sensibility
Timeless and thought-provoking . . . it is something very rare in modern fiction, a true work of art
Astoundingly good . . . it shines like a beacon
A wild adventure through 18th-century England and Russia, medicine, madness, landscape and weather, rendered in prose of consummate beauty