The story Susan Abulhawa tells in this marvellous novel is hard to bear but impossible to ignore. Through four generations of a Palestinian family, The Blue Between Sky and Water shows how history's assault on each person is public, and how it nevertheless cannot extinguish the private experience of grief or the secret sense of eros. Abulhawa's vision is precise, courageous, and dazzling
Teju Cole In true Thousand and One Nights style, Abulhawa surprises us by continually unfolding new stories ... Characters struggle to keep their secrets, but Abulhawa releases them. These are secrets we need to know, secrets that will educate us about ourselves, and Gaza
Guardian
Gripping and deeply moving ... Suffering and resilience are difficult things to witness, but this powerful, politically engaged novel does so with a transformative literary grace. Abulhawa's prose is luminous; her control of a complex weaving of narrative voices - young and old, male and female, magical and real - is masterful. The novel provides an intimate close-up of the women of Gaza and of the everyday heroism amid relentless loss
Independent on Sunday
She is a fine observer of female kinship ... A powerful read
Financial Times
One of the most thought-provoking books I've read ... written with passion, honesty and poetry
Daily Mail on Mornings in Jenin
Abulhawa's writing shines ... Friendship, adolescence, love: ordinary events, offset against extraordinary circumstances, make the story live
Independent
The writer's pain - and the beauty of her prose - are very real
Daily Telegraph
Powerful and moving
Stylist
Powerful and passionate ... unforgettable
Michael Palin Heartbreaking
Esther Freud