The women and the world they inhabit are beautifully drawn. * Julia Kingsford * It's an unusual story, told well and written delicately. * Independent * A very simple book which elicits very complicated emotions.

The women's lives come at us in a present-tense narration that keeps the book easy to read, letting the characters' thoughts bob to the surface of the text in italics, as if in a nod towards the modernism that was brewing in that very period. * Fabulous Magazine * Anna Hope reveals a tragic connection between three women living i 1920s London in her impressive debut * Good Housekeeping Magazine * Hope weaves her three characters' workaday narratives together, building scenes that wear their research lightly. I welcome these, and more, for their stories and the history lessons they incorporate * Arifa Akbar, The Independent * Poignant and powerful, it's a must-read. there is WAKE by Anna Hope, chronicling the lives of women battling with postwar loss. stays long in the memory * Choice * I wouldn't be surprised if this was the biggest hardback debut of the year * Alexandra Hemingsley, Radio Two Arts Show * This centenary year, so many more female writers have chosen The Great War as their central theme. moving and rewarding * Woman and Home * Poignant.

unlikely many will prove better than Anna Hope's Wake * Sunday Times * Absorbing and timely * Daily Mail * Wise and insightful * Sunday Express * A hit, we think! * Simon Mayo Bookclub * Impressive and poignant. beautifully crafted * Irish Times * A moving novel about the aftershock of the 1914-1918 conflict. Sadie Jones, author of THE OUTCAST Superb. Anna Hope's characters are so real flawed and searching, and her prose so natural, one almost forgets how very great a story she is telling. Chris Cleave, author of THE OTHER HAND Wake is powerful and humane a novel that charms and beguiles. The author gives us a moving and original glimpse into the haunted peace after the Great War, her characters drawn by the gravity of the unmarked, the unknown and perhaps, finally, the unhoped for. Rachel Joyce, author of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY A tender and timely novel, full of compassion and quiet insight. It touches feelings we know, and settings - dance halls, war front, queues outside the grocer - that we don't. A compelling and emotionally charged debut about the painful aftermath of war and the ways - small, brave or commonplace - that keep us going.

Wake by Anna Hope