A tender and elegant portrait of a grieving individual searching for personal and political peace

Sunday Times

Tim Finch's elegant and wintry novel has something of the feel of early Kazuo Ishiguro, and a similar acute grasp of both character and situation ... In Behrends, Finch has created a narrator both open and opaque

Observer

There are war stories and there are love stories, but we only occasionally get war stories and love stories braided together … A wonderful novel, tiny and epic both. Laced with humour and sadness, this is an intimate account of what it means to make peace

Colum McCann

A shrewd delight

independent.co.uk

A profound novel about human frailty … In its tone and minor-key approach, Peace Talks is reminiscent of the Julian Barnes of Levels of Life, plus lashings of (duly credited) James Salter … Peace Talks turns out to be a moving and direct study of frailty , love and time, and luck and grief , of what is left when all the noise – of machination, violence and competing stories – is stripped away

Guardian

A feat of telling ... Masterfully rendered

Spectator