John of John

“John of John has the emotional range and sense of sympathy of his earlier books, but this book is special, it has an urgency, an immediacy, a brilliant sense of place, the drama of fierce emotion repressed, concealed and volcanically exposed.”Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island

“To read John of John is to move to the Isle of Harris and take up residence in the family croft. The novel is so immersive, so all-encompassing, that I felt like I was living in it. Douglas Stuart has written something brilliant and rare”Ann Patchett, author of Tom Lake

“Set against the stark beauty of the Hebrides, where the landscape, in all its colour and texture, is as alive and commanding as its people . . . No one crafts characters with the depth and precision of Stuart—John of John is a masterpiece”Elaine Feeney, author of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way

“John of John is another mesmeric, transportive, vividly sensory and astonishingly textured novel from one of our greatest writers”Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other