Critical Praise

"A sweeping mytho-historical novel par excellence . . . .”

——Minneapolis Star Tribune

"[Martha Peake] has rare qualities of power and urgency. . . . [Readers] are carried along by the eloquence and the energy and the brilliantly managed narrative pace.”

——The New York Times Book Review

"An uncommon storyteller . . . . McGrath demonstrates his trademark ability to probe the layers of the human psyche."

——San Francisco Chronicle

"Unputdownable."

——The Washington Post