Godsend (Paperback)

Frequently mesmerising . . . This is a significant literary performance - Dwight Garner, New York Times

Rawly unsentimental but illuminated throughout by a subtle compassion, Godsend is a novel of enormous emotional intelligence which makes for compelling and consistently unpredictable reading - Robin Yassin-Kassab, Guardian

The 9/11 novel that finally understands the fulfilments of faith . . . It is not only Wray's heroine but also his novel that comes of age, steadily deepening and astounding as it develops . . . Godsend impresses because Wray is so fearlessly committed to his fictional world, and to his own depiction of it - James Wood, New Yorker

Wray's storytelling is so taut, his psychology so audacious - JONATHAN FRANZEN, Guardian

A nervy drama of secrecy and desire . . . Fascinating - Observer

Illuminating . . . At a time when so many novelists are turning towards inner landscapes, Wray has undertaken a journey to the edge of the unimaginable - Michael LaPointe, Times Literary Supplement

Brilliantly executed . . . Wray's novel is on one hand an entirely familiar story of youthful rebellion and on the other an unimaginable depiction of a cold-blooded killer groomed by the world's most notorious army - Wall Street Journal

Intense yet economic, equally poignant and chilling, Godsend melds reality and myth . . . An unlikely and complex parable that puts faith, religion, gender and identity under an unforgiving spotlight, Wray has produced something genuinely thought-provoking - Irish Times

Wray writes with an elegant economy . . . Wray's understanding of the beauties and cruelties of religious faith is deeply impressive . . . This is a very fine novel indeed . . . Anybody who seeks to understand the world as it is today will find enlightenment here - Allan Massie, Scotsman

This novel crosses lines that fiction should, stretching the imagination from suburban California to a jihadi training camp in the foothills of the Hindu Kush. Wray's taut prose propels a gripping narrative that stands head and shoulders above most fiction about America's war on terror - HARI KUNZRU, author of WHITE TEARS