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`stylish fiction follow-up to Orange Prize-shortlisted The Outcast' --Sunday Times
`this is an unforgiving, far from comfortable read, but a very compelling one'. -- Metro
`Poignant and compelling' -- Marie Claire
'Here Jones's talent really shows...In an excellent encounter with a military psychiatrist, the dialogue breaks like dry twigs.' -- Literary Review
`Heavy with menace and a dark streak of violence, it's as unforgiving as it is gripping'.
--Metro
"An absorbing story about emotional constraint and its dangers" --Saturday Telegraph Review
'Small Wars is a gripping account of emotional disintegration...A well-paced novel possessing both literary and moral integrity'
-- Sunday Telegraph Books
`Here Jones's talent really shows...In an excellent encounter with a military psychiatrist, the dialogue breaks like dry twigs. --Times Literary Supplement
`Heavy with menace and a dark streak of violence, it's as unforgiving as it is gripping'. --Metro
"An absorbing story about emotional constraint and its dangers" --Telegraph Review
'a gripping account of emotional disintegration...A well-paced novel possessing both literary and moral integrity'
--Sunday Telegraph Books
`Jones's research is impeccable, and her emotional intelligence outstanding' --The Times
`Meticulously researched and emotionally powerful, this is a second novel to be proud of.' --The Daily Express
`...direct, undecorated, irresistibly dynamic and immensely powerful...'. --Independent on Sunday
`An inspired subject for a historical novel, the occupied island is vividly drawn...[Jones] lays out with great honesty and directness the quandries of war'. --Guardian
"Exciting novel ... it's a movie waiting to happen."
--The Independant
`...this exciting novel...[focuses] as much on the thrills and terrors of frontline action as its psychological fall out...it's a movie waiting to happen.'
--Independant
"with her second novel, Sadie Jones...confirms her brilliance" --Books Quarterly
`this is an unforgiving, far from comfortable read, but a very compelling one'. -- Metro
`Poignant and compelling' -- Marie Claire
'Here Jones's talent really shows...In an excellent encounter with a military psychiatrist, the dialogue breaks like dry twigs.' -- Literary Review
`Heavy with menace and a dark streak of violence, it's as unforgiving as it is gripping'.
--Metro
"An absorbing story about emotional constraint and its dangers" --Saturday Telegraph Review
'Small Wars is a gripping account of emotional disintegration...A well-paced novel possessing both literary and moral integrity'
-- Sunday Telegraph Books
`Here Jones's talent really shows...In an excellent encounter with a military psychiatrist, the dialogue breaks like dry twigs. --Times Literary Supplement
`Heavy with menace and a dark streak of violence, it's as unforgiving as it is gripping'. --Metro
"An absorbing story about emotional constraint and its dangers" --Telegraph Review
'a gripping account of emotional disintegration...A well-paced novel possessing both literary and moral integrity'
--Sunday Telegraph Books
`Jones's research is impeccable, and her emotional intelligence outstanding' --The Times
`Meticulously researched and emotionally powerful, this is a second novel to be proud of.' --The Daily Express
`...direct, undecorated, irresistibly dynamic and immensely powerful...'. --Independent on Sunday
`An inspired subject for a historical novel, the occupied island is vividly drawn...[Jones] lays out with great honesty and directness the quandries of war'. --Guardian
"Exciting novel ... it's a movie waiting to happen."
--The Independant
`...this exciting novel...[focuses] as much on the thrills and terrors of frontline action as its psychological fall out...it's a movie waiting to happen.'
--Independant
"with her second novel, Sadie Jones...confirms her brilliance" --Books Quarterly
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Hal Treherne is a young and dedicated soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other deep commitment is to Clara, his beautiful 'red, white and blue girl', who sustains him as he rises through the ranks. When Hal is transferred to the Mediterranean, Clara, now his wife, and their baby daughters join him. But Cyprus is no 'sunshine posting', and the island is in the heat of the Emergency: the British are defending the colony against Cypriots - schoolboys and armed guerrillas alike - battling for enosis, union with Greece. The skirmishes are far from glorious and operations often rough and bloody. Still, in serving his country and leading his men, Hal has a taste of triumph. Clara shares his sense of duty. She must settle down, make no fuss, smile. But action changes Hal, and Clara becomes fearful - of the lethal tit-for-tat beyond the army base, and her increasingly distant husband. The atrocities Hal is drawn into take him further from Clara; a betrayal that is only part of the shocking personal crisis to come. The prizewinning and bestselling author of "The Outcast" returns with an emotionally powerful portrait of a marriage in extremis and a world-view in question. Sadie Jones has produced a passionate, gut-wrenching and brilliantly researched depiction of a 'small war' with devastating consequences; and in doing so, raises important questions that resonate profoundly today.
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