«Pyrotechnic brilliance»

Daily Mail

«Ambitious, powerful... There is much to enjoy and admire in this novel... Flanagan writes with a startling brilliance»

Scotsman

«A fiercely well-observed account of the psychological twists and turns, the stress points and the double-binds, of familial love»

Daily Telegraph

«Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the world today - I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a haunting, urgent and important book about our broken and confusing age»

James Rebanks

«Striking... brilliantly done... Flanagan is wise enough to place his wider concerns, and the accompanying magic realism within the sturdy framework of a conventional family narrative»

The Times