'Laird Hunt's new novel is a beguiling and evocative story about love and loss, duty and deceit. Through the assured voice of his narrator and the subtle beauty of his writing, Neverhome took me on a journey so thoroughly engrossed that there were times the pages seemed to turn themselves.' Kevin Powers

'A spare, beautiful novel, so deeply about America and the language of America that its sentences seem to rise up from the earth itself. Laird Hunt had me under his spell from the first word of Neverhome to the last. Magnificent.' Paul Auster

'The Civil War has given us so many great literary works that I couldn't have imagined a new fictional approach that was both stunningly original and yet utterly natural, even inevitable. But this is just what Laird Hunt brilliantly delivers in his new novel. The key is his central character: in her voice, her personality, her yearning, she deeply touches our shared and enduring humanity. Neverhome is masterful work by one of our finest writers.' ROBERT OLEN BUTLER, author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

'Hunt brings an especially bittersweet and lyrical tone to this forgotten part of Civil War history and gives to several hundred women who did indeed make the momentous decision to fight….An amazing book.' Library Journal

'An exquisitely wrought vision of the terrible ravages of war - on the land, on the human body, and on the mind.' Booklist

'A book that deserves a wider readership' The Economist

‘In fiercely gorgeous prose, Laird Hunt’s NEVERHOME traces the mesmerizing odyssey of a singular woman, who stretches and shimmers from these pages, and stakes a piercing claim on our hearts. You won’t soon forget Ash Thompson’s voice or this astonishing novel.’ PAULA McLAIN, author of The Paris Wife

Cormac McCarthy meets True Grit meets Gone With the Wind (with fewer dresses)

Award-winning & hype: comes garlanded with praise from previous books and already highly praised in advance of US pub in September (picked as one to watch and one of the BEA 'buzz panel' books in US; author doing a pre-pub city tour)

UK debut: Neverhome is Laird's 6th novel but he's never been published in the UK before; it sold at auction for a huge amount in the US & on a preempt here; special early proofs for summer reading

For lovers of legend-America books like Philipp Meyer, Cormac McCarthy, Marylinne Robinson as well as 'hooky' conceit books like The Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan

Impact of war: brilliant, evocative, new take on the impact of war (esp on women)