'A startling novel'
Guardian
Gripping . . . Jones subtly dramatises this crucial ethical dilemma with strong characters. Vulnerable and abused, the woman holds the reader's sympathy yet repays almost every kindness with theft and betrayal. Jones artfully builds these contradictory impulses into richly textured layers to create a compelling narrative and an absorbing disquisition on relative morality ... Read moreand justice
FT
'A haunting tale of a mother's search for her only child'
The Times
This is, to make a bold claim, an extraordinary novel . . . Jones is a daring writer who can be relied on to ignore expectation, and is becoming one of the most interesting, honest and thought-provoking novelists working today
Joanna Briscoe, Guardian
The novel's readability belies its great depth . . . Jones's novel is haunting to the very final line
Sunday Telegraph
Everyone will want to read Hand Me Down World and few will be able to stop thinking about it after they do
Irish Independent
Artfully constructed and delicately nuanced . . . Hand Me Down World has an eerie compulsion
D J Taylor, Financial Times
Humane and moving, it's a worthy successor to Jones's last novel, the Booker-shortlisted Mister Pip
Daily Mail
Compelling . . . vivid . . . intense . . . one of the most significant novelists writing today
Sunday Times
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