Anne Michaels' compelling novel Held couldn't be more timely: war and its damages, passed through generations over a century. Through luminous moments of chance, change, and even grace, Michaels shows us our humanity - its depths and shadows

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The novel's fleeting interactions and shards of reminiscence repeatedly blindside the willing reader with vivid particularity

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It follows a trail of family connections through stories of love and grief. It's a novel haunted by a sense of the sorrows of the world but also by unexplained manifestations

BBC RADIO 4 FRONT ROW

A warm, gentle and powerful novel; a book of moments, reimaginings, forgettings, disturbances and digressions. Anne Michaels has excelled herself once again.

International Times

Michaels' work ... is ferociously engaged in the fundamental universal difficulties of being alive

independent.co.uk

Michaels is a writer who moves gracefully between award-winning poetry and captivating fiction – and there is a lyrical beauty to this novel … with Anne Michaels, you know you are in the presence of a real and rich sensibility

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