‘Witty, stirring, formidable, above all readable.’

Angus Calder,
Scotland on Sunday

‘This super-subtle work is like a delicately spiced dish whose aftertaste testifies to the chef's skill: more striking in retrospect.’

Time Out

‘Linda Grant's remarkably accomplished first novel is piercingly sad.’

Guardian

‘Grant writes with an elegant restraint and honesty which suit her themes. The narrative, with its portrait of post-war American society in the 1940s and 1950s, has all the complexity of real life but leaves no detail unresolved. The character of Sybil, prosaic, strong-willed, self-absorbed, sexy and charming, is entirely credible, a woman belonging both to her time and to herself’

Jewish Chronicle

‘Intelligent and ambitious. . . The Cast Iron Shore is a novel of ideas, and it aspires almost passionately - to address questions which can only be called metaphysical: of freedom and identity, of purpose and becoming... fascinating.'

Times Literary Supplement

‘A remarkable chronicle of the second half of the twentieth century... Grant's outstanding novel demonstrates a commendable ambivalence towards its utopian socialist characters. She offers us big ideas and a clever plot, along with some truly fine writing.’

Daily Telegraph