'EXCEPTIONAL . . . SHARP, WITTY AND COMPLETELY COMPELLING'.

Daily Mail

'AN EXCEPTIONALLY FUNNY, QUIRKY AND BOLD WRITER'.

Independent on Sunday

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PEACETIME.

Robert Edric 'HAS A SERIOUSNESS AND A PSYCHOLOGICAL EDGE THAT NINE OUT OF TEN NOVELISTS WOULD GIVE THEIR EYE TEETH TO POSSESS'.

D. J. Taylor, Sunday Times

Late summer 1946: the Wash on the Fenland coast. Into a suspicious and isolated community comes James Mercer, employed in the demolition of gun platforms. He befriends the wife and daughter of Lynch, a soldier soon to be released from military gaol. He also finds himself drawn to Mathias, a German prisoner with no desire to return home, and Jacob, a Jewish concentration camp survivor.

Lynch's return threatens violence; and in a place where nothing has changed for decades, where peacetime feels no different to wartime, Mercer finds himself powerless to prevent events quickening to their violent and unexpected conclusion.

'A MARVEL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHT AND SUBTLY OBSERVED RELATIONS. ITS SPARE, UNADORNED PROSE HAS POETIC RESONANCE'.

Ian Thomson, Guardian

'EDRICS' LANGUAGE HAS A MYTHIC, ALMOST BIBLICAL QUALITY, WHERE EVERY WORD CARRIES DUE WEIGHT AND YOU HAVE THE EERIE SENSE OF THINGS BEING LEFT OUT . . . HAT MAKES EDRICS WRITING PROFOUND IS HIS REFUSAL TO BE TIDY OR DOGMATIC . . . HE IS A GREAT NOVELIST'.

John de Falbe, Spectator

'PEACETIME GRADUALLY UNRAVELS THE CONTRADICTORY HUMAN IMPULSES THAT BIND LIVES . . . A MORAL DISSECTION OF LOYALTY, FORGIVENESS AND HATRED'.

James Urquhart, The Times.

'A NOVEL OF AMBITON AND SKILL, AT ONCE A HISTORICAL MEDITATION, AN EVOCATION OF A DISINTEGRATING SOCIETY AND, PERHAPS MOST STRIKINGLY, A FAMILY MELODRAMA'.

Francis Gilbert, New Statesman.

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