Thank you to the publishers for this early review copy. This book had not been on my radar before it's arrival but I feel having read it that I really must get it on everyone's radar. The writing is exquisite the story will really touch your heart. I whole heartedly recommend this book to everyone. Take Quinn into your heart. Give it a pre order - you will not regret it.

This has to be my top read this year. An utterly devastating novella that moves through a phantasmagoria of grief, violence, memory and forgiveness. Told in prose poetry that builds through terse conceits and images peppered with wandering mamoryscapes. It culminates in a final sequence that had me in tears on a busy train moving up Scotland's coast. The eponymous Quinn takes us on a journey through the unravelling mind of an incarcerated individual. He asks us to consider the role of rehabilitation and forgiveness in justice systems. He asks us to think - with great discomfort - about male violence. He dwells on intergenerational trauma. He makes us think about love. For readers of Cynan Jones, Anne Carson, Max Porter, Megan Hunter, Susanna Clarke and George Saunders.