Shot through with Banks' trademark humour, political engagement and hope
Louise Welsh
The Times
A quietly incendiary piece of writing, at times heartbreaking, at other times really wonderfully funny... a profoundly humane, funny and smart novel
Independent
Wonderfully exuberant... written with the life-enhancing verve characteristic of Banks' best work
Scotsman
Infallibly entertaining
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In Banks we had a novelist of supreme subtlety and one who, in fiction as in life, and for all the concentrated horror of his debut novel, all the epic estrangements of his 'skiffy' (sci-fi), and all the grimness of his final months, had an irrepressible sense of fun that is evident on every page of The Quarry
Independent
This is a novel that's perched at the dangerous edge of things, looking down. It's an urgent novel and an important one
Observer
Vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy and vitriol
Mirror
A compelling, raw book
William Leith
Evening Standard
Banks' handling of big, complex themes is skilful and satisfying, and he concludes on a quietly moving note of compassion
The List
Banks's relaxed fluency - the direct, funny, unpretentious intelligence of his writing... along with his teeming imagination, made him perhaps Britain's best-loved major contemporary novelist
Guardian
A quietly incendiary piece of writing, at times heartbreaking, at other times really wonderfully funny ... a profoundly humane, funny and smart novel.
Independent
A novel shot through with Banks's trademark humour, political engagement and hope.
Louise Welsh
The Times
Wonderfully exuberant ... written with the life-enhancing verve characteristic of Banks's best work.
Scotsman
Vintage Banks, full of heart, black comedy and vitriol.
Mirror
A compelling, raw book
William Leith
Evening Standard
Banks' handling of big, complex themes is skilful and satisfying, and he concludes on a quietly moving note of compassion.
The List
Infallibly entertaining
Telegraph
Banks's relaxed fluency - the direct, funny, unpretentious intelligence of his writing, which, along with his teeming imagination, made him perhaps Britain's best-loved major contemporary novelist.
Guardian
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