Review
'Dramatic and wide-ranging, written at the top of his form.' -- Tower Hamlets Recorder 'Exceptional' -- Sunday Times 'A profound novel, meditative, not conclusive, offering no simplistic answers to what Miller calls 'the vertigo of self-knowledge'. Yet despite the absence of an easy happy ending, it leaves the reader with a feeling of courage and, in the face of so much evidence to the contrary, hope.' -- Observer 'The writing is clear, precise, feelingly observant ... Miller is a fine writer.' -- Spectator 'A delight to read ... [Miller] incites thought without dictating it, and conjures emotion without prescribing it ... THE OPTIMISTS is a novel of great intelligence and understanding, populated by characters who are recognisable yet exceptional.' -- Alex Heminsley, Time Out 'The uncluttered narrative and the slow, quiet accumulation of everyday detail imbues this novel with a quiet grace' -- Daily Mail 'A powerful and lively book, seriously engaged and cathartic ... gently, almost imperceptibly, impelled by the nourishment of love.' -- James Urquhart, Financial Times 'In Clem Glass, Miller has created neither a victim nor a victor but a man driven by his own innate decency, a character in whom we can believe, a person about whom we care and that is what great writing is about.' -- Irish Times '[A] delicate, compassionate tale' -- Metro
Time Out
'A delight to read ... a novel of great intelligence and understanding, populated by characters who are recognisable yet exceptional.'
