Karen Campbell is the author of The Twilight Time, After the Fire, Shadowplay, Proof of Life, This Is Where I Am, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, and Rise. A former police officer and Glasgow Council PR, she lives in Galloway, Scotland.www.karencampbell.co.uk

A rich and thoroughly enjoyable novel: a love story, a war story, a story of divided loyalties ...It is a work of considerable complexity with a powerful narrative drive … She has the ability, rarer in fiction today than it used to be, to make you care about her characters … This is an ambitious novel, and one of rare scope and understanding ... It is the kind of novel which is likely to have you thinking it ought to be filmed, and then realising that a film would be unlikely to do justice to its amplitude and complexity. But it will surely win prizes

Karen Campbell is the author of The Twilight Time, After the Fire, Shadowplay, Proof of Life, This Is Where I Am, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, and Rise. A former police officer and Glasgow Council PR, she lives in Galloway, Scotland.www.karencampbell.co.uk

A rich and thoroughly enjoyable novel: a love story, a war story, a story of divided loyalties ...It is a work of considerable complexity with a powerful narrative drive … She has the ability, rarer in fiction today than it used to be, to make you care about her characters … This is an ambitious novel, and one of rare scope and understanding ... It is the kind of novel which is likely to have you thinking it ought to be filmed, and then realising that a film would be unlikely to do justice to its amplitude and complexity. But it will surely win prizes