Winner of the National Book Tokens’ Not-Yet-Published Prize. Rights sales: Korea (Random House Korea)
「英國圖書禮券公司」年度最佳好書
Winner of the National Book Tokens’ NYP Prize
英美主流評論一致讚譽，要作者再寫一本，而且要快！
‘Williams’s restrained prose always keeps the story under tight control, never allowing it to descend into mawkishness. This is a hugely impressive debut.’---Daily Telegraph
‘Compassionate and perceptive ... Simply a great read.’---Adele Parks
‘The prose here is almost a poem ... a novel of promise in every sense. We are left satisfied yet wanting more.’---Times Literary Supplement
‘It’s the sort of novel I’m always hoping to find. It’s odd, heartfelt, romantic, sad, and most of all honest. When you read it you feel Williams wrote this one because he had to, and for me those are always the best novels.’---Willy Vlautin
‘Cool and clear and hiding deep emotion beneath a carapace of coping ... the language with which he recounts this tale of friendship and survival seems newly minted. The kind of book that reminds you why, as a child, you started reading in the first place.’---Financial Times
‘There are moments of startling clarity in this book that splinter your heart […] but it’s never dour or grim. […] It’s quirky but not saccharine, painful but not hopeless, difficult but not hard. … I read the last page of Luke and Jon with a real sense of regret that it was all over. It’s only February and I’ve read some wonderful books in 2010 already, but this is my favourite book of the year so far, and by a country mile too. More, please, Mr Williams, and soon.’---The Bookbag
‘You have a real find, a major find, in Robert Williams, I believe. I finished reading it a couple of days ago, but it is the kind of book that stays in the mind way past the final page [...] He pulls off the brilliant trick of making light of heavy matters without lessening their impact. Above all, though, he writes bloody well.’---Mal Peet
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"Like many classic stories of childhood, Robert Williams’s Luke and Jon is told with an outsider’s eye: cool and clear and hiding deep emotion beneath a carapace of coping ... the language with which he recounts this tale of friendship and survival seems newly minted. The kind of book that reminds you why, as a child, you started reading in the first place." ---金融時報
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ddccb030-32de-11df-bf5f-00144feabdc0.html
"The prose here is almost a poem ... Luke and Jon is a novel of promise in every sense... We are left satisfied yet wanting more. "It was special," as Luke says. "It was enough.""---Sheena Joughin, TLS (full review attached)
The first novels round-up in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/27/catherine-taylor-first-novels-roundup
And it continues to get 4/5 star reviews on Amazon vine:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Luke-Jon-Robert-Williams/dp/0571249639/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271324734&sr=1-1