“highly original, engrossing… a love story that is a marvel of freshness and compression…[I SAW A MAN is a] skillful novel… such a large talent… Sheers [is] a resourceful writer with a sharp eye for both the big picture and the lovely detail” Kirkus [starred review]
“Owen Sheers is an exquisite and exceptional talent. He navigates terrain that is both globally complex and crushingly intimate -- all with a poet’s quiet grace. Spectacular. This book is a prize in itself.” Alison Wearing
“there are so many expertly detonated surprises… immensely pleasurable… from the start you feel Sheers knows exactly what he is doing… Sheers’s delivery of his twisting plot is exhilaratingly economical. No detail is incidental, yet in the telling, everything seems natural . This is an exemplary thriller, clever, classy, slick- and always one step ahead of the reader… Nothing here is tangential. Everything is pivotal, held in place by the powerful centripetal force of this tight, stylish thriller” Claire Lowdon, Sunday Times
“Owen Sheers is the ultimate literary hipster… a quietly disturbing thriller in an unashamedly lovely setting… quite an achievement… a rare treat” Melissa Katsoulis, The Times
“Owen Sheers deftly plucks the various plotlines which resonate back and forth throughout the novel… the characters are so well drawn that while you might not agree with their choices, you can understand the thought processes behind them… Sheers shows that whatever wide-ranging events affect our lives… it is how we respond to them- those momentary choices- that control our own destiny” Gareth Watkins, Stylist
“[I SAWA MAN HAS] the gripping pace and drama of a thrilling GONE GIRL-esque blockbuster… gorgeously written” Chloe Sharp, Stylist
“a genuinely gripping piece of storytelling… fans of Ian McEwan and Donna Tartt will find that the central conceit of I SAW A MAN is strong… In considering a set of actions and their consequences from a range of differing viewpoints, and allowing the situation its full moral complexity, Sheers leaves us with the uncomfortable sense of a question still reverberating in the air: which of us, today, can really say our hands are clean?” Melissa Harrison, Financial Times
“a gripping and stylish thriller… Sheers’s narrative is one of finely tuned suspense that erupts into visceral drama… his honed prose is full of images of photographic sharpness that leap from the page… bold and satisfying” Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail
“Sheers is particularly good on the precariousness of domestic life… a powerful moral (and occasionally moralising) thriller… Sheers skilfully drip-feeds the reader his characters’ secrets and lies… [the] ending is similarly bravura” Adrian Turpin, Literary Review
“deeply poignant… elegant prose… a profound meditation on memory and mourning” Anita Sethi, Observer
“extraordinarily tense and powerful, and beautifully written.” Anthony Gardner, Mail on Sunday
“Sheers writes carefully about careless people and the results present the reader with a reflective window on to self-deception... a clever novel” Max Liu, Independent
“Sheers’ own language is consistently rich and engaging, precisely calibrated to the circumstances he’s describing.” Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine
a great review of I SAW A MAN by Owen Sheers, which has just been printed in New York Times (please see link and details below).
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/books/review-owen-sheerss-i-saw-a-man-examines-grief-and-responsibility.html?_r=0
the Dutch have presented I SAW A MAN in their Autumn catalogue. It is a lead title for Ambo Anthos and the same is true for Penguin Random House Spain and for Payot Rivages in France in September.
Here is the link to the Dutch catalogue (see page 7): http://issuu.com/amboanthos/docs/najaar_2015-definitief_klein