Susan Hill - A Kind Man

Guardian“Hill impresses without seeking to astonish...” As always, she has a light, fluid style. The book amounts to a series of simple but effective chord changes on the theme of kindness, on what it means to be "steady, quiet, calm, reliable, loyal, thoughtful, gentle"...

The Telegraph“Exquisitely told tale... ” Susan Hill’s storytelling is elegant. Sometimes a piece of writing is so pure, so true, it is almost painful to read. At the risk of sounding like a sentimental old bat, it was hard to read this story without regular recourse to tissues...

The Independent“Perhaps the most moving she has written...” Hill's prose embraces sentences that are by turn short and staccato and deliberately long and rambling. Defiant in its simplicity, it has an incantatory quality that is not least among this slender novel's page-turner qualities...

Financial Times“Few writers wield the power of the unspoken as deftly...” Susan Hill’s spare prose is the perfect expression for these sensitively understated characters. Their reluctance to explain their actions allows readers the satisfaction of using our powers of deduction even when her tale is not one of mystery...

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