A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better

Reviews

‘Wood takes the passing, shabby details of mundane landscapes and makes them jitter and throb with yearning and menace. A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better is his best work yet - a novel written from the gut, and with a correspondingly visceral power. A superbly unsettling account of trauma and cautious recovery’   ‘Tenderly dissecting the limits of love between parent and child while wriggling with a rich, thrilling tension, this palpably atmospheric story found its way beneath my skin and now lives there. Tell anyone who’ll listen, Benjamin Wood is one of the best novelists in Britain’ ‘A shocking account of extreme violence and its complicated after-effects. It is a vivid and unsettling novel filled with surprises and insights’  'A heart-breaking and heart-stopping new novel; a dark Northern noir that moves at breakneck speed but never fails to be tender and vulnerable as well as visceral and terrifying' 'A novelist to watch'  'A resounding achievement . . . Rich, beautiful and written by an author of great depth and resource'  'Full of suspense and beautifully written, superbly imagined and constructed . . . A terrifically gripping and playful book' 'Exhilarating, earthy, cerebral, frank and unflinching . . . A masterfully paced and suspenseful read' 'A rich, intricate and layered work'  'Haunts the imagination long after the final page'  'A gorgeous and harrowing work'  Expand reviews