White Lightning

Brilliant, dazzling, unsettling; subtle and haunting; complex and multi-layered; deeply moving - Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday

A work of literary art, a mellow, beautifully constructed fable about the human hunger for goodness, it is by far the best thing Cartwright has done. - David Robson, Sunday Telegraph

One of the finest novelists currently at work ... An altogether stunning achievement - D.J. Taylor, Guardian

Hauntingly brilliant ... It is the best novel I have read this year. - Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph

Apart from being a profoundly serious writer, Cartwright can also be an abrasively amusing one. Scarcely a page of this book fails to yield some pleasure. WHITE LIGHTNING is a book of substantial merit. - Francis King, Literary Review

Beguiling. With this novel, Cartwright, a former Whitbread Award winner has put it all together - style, story, theme - to produce something exceptional. - Giles Newington, Irish Times

Subtle and moving...Cartwright weaves the story of the man and the baboon with a magicians's delicacy...White Lightning underlines the intelligence and breadth of imagination that this former Whitbread Novel of the Year winner brings to every single paragraph of his work. - Daily Mail

Justin Cartwright's new novel may well be his finest - in an already accomplished oeuvre. Wry, achingly true and profound without being sententious, it's a moving and bleakly funny look at life's hellish demands and occasional moments of happiness. - William Boyd, Guardian Books of the Year