All is Song

Reviews / Votes

Intense, rewarding and bracingly serious -- Adrian Turpin * Financial Times * Profoundly beautiful, cathartic writing. -- Catherine Taylor * Daily Telegraph * A fine study of the nature and strength of family ties and the morality, or otherwise, of conforming where it matters -- Kate Saunders * The Times * This beautifully written composition does that rare thing, of provoking free thought, while scrutinising the far-reaching repercussions of such rebellious activity -- Freya McClelland * Independent * Harvey's slow, intense thoughtfulness feels positively Woolfean at times. She thinks deeply, and writes beautifully about these thoughts. -- Lucy Atkins * Sunday Times * This is a novel of ideas that also creates believable characters and explores complex relationships. Harvey's prose is graceful and unhurried, full of sharp observation and moments of subtly understated pathos -- Carol Birch * Guardian * There's still something compelling in the way Harvey resists the easy and the obvious. The result is a novel of both depth and defiance -- Natasha Tripney * Observer * A moving novel about family duty and friendship set against a London backdrop of national unrest * Grazia * Deftly controlled and exquisitely measured -- Brian Donaldson * The List * How would Socrates get on in 21st century Britain? This is the question at the heart of Samantha Harvey's ambitious second novel -- James Walton * Daily Mail *