Early One Morning - Tapa dura

Early One Morning isn't just an incandescent novel, but the rarest of reading experiences, offering a view both wrenching and luminous of how love pushes us past what we're capable of, and somehow - impossibly - reclaims us when we're long past saving. Utterly magnificent (Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife and Circling the Sun)

Early One Morning heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice in fiction, with a story that is instantly engaging, and characters that effortlessly lift from the page and are rendered so rich and full that they wrap themselves around you and refuse to let go. Beautifully written and emotionally taut, Virginia Baily's Early One Morning is a powerhouse of a novel (Jason Hewitt, author of The Dynamite Room)

A real treat: a beautifully written account of the long consequences of war, set in a richly evoked Roman of the 1970s (Philip Hensher Observer)

Wonderful . . . I was completely inside it from the first pages, just that delicious (rare) feeling of knowing you're in safe hands, this writer isn't going to make a mess of anything, or forfeit your trust or your belief. It managed to be so witty and dry and true . . . Vividly intelligent, gripping and moving and alive (Tessa Hadley)

A powerfully moving tale of war's reverberations (Prima)

Baily subtly tugs at your heartstrings and by the end of her novel you're likely to be as desperate as the women in Daniele's life to discover his fate (Daily Express)

A moving assertion of the power of maternal love to overcome unimaginable obstacles (Sunday Times)

Virginia Baily pulls off a triumph with an exquisitely rendered novel that explores how one powerful and unexpected love can shape a life forever (Herald)

As gripping as any thriller . . . crammed with the sort of heart-stopping, heart-breaking scenes that brought a lump to the throat of even this jaded reviewer. Really, really good (Daily Mail)

Intricate, moving - I loved it (Woman and Home)