PRAISE FOR THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY

‘As emotionally engaged as a political satire and as compulsively readable as a saga … extraordinary’

Sunday Telegraph

‘Engrossing and hugely impressive’

The Times

‘Philip Hensher’s new book shows that the epic, exciting, deeply engaged novel of society is not dead in England’

Andrew O’Hagan

‘Dazzling … a piercingly insightful group portrait’

New York Times

‘Not only extremely funny, but also deeply humane … a virtuoso display of sympathy’

Sunday Times