Natasha Carthew

Country WriterCornwall#gritlit 'THE LIGHT THAT GETS LOST'Gripping stuff, Carthew’s prose has a startling ferocity.Toby Clements, The Telegraph Best Books of 2015The prose is often eccentric, quirky and vernacular, and sometimes poetic, with a magical and lyrical rhythm. Superb! Highly recommended. Steve Hird, Editor –The School LibrarianThe Light That Gets Lost is a wild and dangerous story and a beautiful one, too.It's rough and taciturn and frank and, at times, utterly shocking. But it's also deeply, deeply intimate.Jill Murphy, The Bookbagit’s wholly original, a novel that could only have been written by Natasha Carthew. The camp, the earth beneath, the sky above, are so vividly described, we feel the soil under fingernails, smell the sunshine. Carthew’s language is enthralling, she uses Cornish dialect words rooted in the landscape described, and her writing has its own poetry. Matthew Martin, Books For KeepsLanguid but ultimately uplifting.Niall Alexander, Tor.comA vivid, imagistic language.Suzi Feay, The Financial Times