Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize
A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year
A National Post Book of the Year
An Ottawa Citizen Best Book of the Year
A Quill & Quire Book of the Year An Amazon.ca Top 50 Book of the Year
A Toronto Star Best Book of the Year
An Ottawa Xpress Best Book of the Year
A Talking Books (CBC Radio) Best 25 Book of the Year
“Harvey is proving to be one of Canada’s very best writers, and this novel—passionate, angry and raw—drew raves when it came out. It also was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and should have been shortlisted as well.”
—Ottawa Citizen
“Many authors have employed short-sentence suspense, but because of this striking and unusual mixture of simplicity and depth, there is no point in making comparisons. This is a book like no other, a fully achieved and very beautiful tragedy.”
—Edmonton Journal
“Newfoundland author Kenneth J. Harvey’s latest novel, Inside, is a potent—at times punishing—masterpiece. It further cements Harvey’s renown as one of Canada’s most dynamic and daring writers.”
—Sounds Like Canada, CBC.ca
“Kenneth J. Harvey’s brilliant and remorseless novel, Inside, provides a narrative of unsettling intensity.”
—Times Literary Supplement (UK)
“Inside is the kind of novel that brings temporary life back to such clichés as ‘gripping’ and ‘page-turner.’… There is no small irony in the fact that the emotionally blunted Myrden will probably stand as one of the more vivid and full-blooded characters of all the Canadian novels being published this year. Hopefully, Inside will meet the success it deserves.”
“Newfoundland writer Kenneth J. Harvey is one of Canada’s most gifted and imaginative prose stylists…. Harvey has found the perfect voice to capture Myrden’s inner seething, the slow roil of his building fury and his constant confusion and paranoia.”
—The Vancouver Sun
“The book of Canadian fiction that most impressed me this year.”
—Martin Levin, Books editor, The Globe and Mail,
on CBC Radio’s Talking Books
“When you read Inside, and you absolutely must read it, you will be astonished that something this stark, this hypnotically captivating, could flow out of the writer’s mind with such apparent ease.”
—The Halifax Herald
“Terrific…. By any measure Inside places Harvey’s name among the top rank of this country’s writers.”
“A gripping, moving story … Inside is a great book and a real achievement.”
—The Telegram (St. John’s)
“Inside is classic Harvey. Every scene has its skin peeled back, nerves and heart exposed. No one else can write like this.”
—Bill Gaston, author of Mount Appetite and Gargoyles
“Edgy, redemptive and utterly compelling.”
—Elle Canada