In the Wolf's Mouth

Astounding vivid snapshots that somehow mimic the fractured intensity of real firefight: the delicately crafted but deceptively powerful images of each staccato chapter linger and resonate. Reading this book is like remembering war…an expertly crafted work of dark beauty and intensity. -- Patrick Hennessey * The Times *
Wonderful – subtle and atmospheric. Foulds's prose frequently verges on poetry – with its intensity and neat turn of phrase … impressive. -- Frances Perraudin * Observer *
Adam Foulds writes like an angel about devilish things... The supple, sensuous beauty of his prose is bewitching… The pace and tension of a political thriller… Superb novel. -- Rebecca Abrams * Financial Times *
Powerful and persuasive… As admirable as it is disturbing. -- Allan Massie * Scotsman *
Adam Foulds is a young British novelist of striking talent and eclecticism. His style is first-rate, combining precision with a rich poetic imagination. He is able to do more with language, and at greater depth, than most other British novelists of his generation. -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times *
The pellucid elegance of Foulds’s fictional voice is entirely his own. He conjures with exhilarating assurance the sense of a postwar collapse of order so complete as to be almost voluptuous. -- Jane Shilling * Prospect *
Ambitious and diffuse... Foulds is a master of concision and clarity, and his prose is "poetic" in the best sense: never florid or rambling, each short sentence weighed and parcelled out. -- Tom Gatti * New Statesman *
The bleakness of Foulds’s message…is not reflected in the richness of the prose or characterisation of this deep, dark, demanding tale. -- Lesley McDowell * Independent on Sunday *
[Foulds] matches his flair for rhythm with a skilful ownership of both his prose and a complex narrative. All delivered with a minimalist restraint. -- Will Dean * Independent *
There's much to admire in this novel. Foulds has a searching eye for detail and an apparently helpless compulsion to wring imagery from his subject. -- Tim Martin * Daily Telegraph *
Foulds’s writing invites...returning to consider each layer of the composition...there is a prismatic quality to the language which allows various levels of interpretation to be separated out and refined. -- Thea Lenarduzzi * Times Literary Supplement *
Wonderfully enticing. -- Lucian Robinson * Literary Review *
Individual scenes are often gripping, shocking or moving. -- John Harding * Daily Mail *
The bloody horrors of conflict are captured with visceral aplomb in this fine, minimalist novel. * i *
Some of the most vividly evoked battle scenes I've read – he doesn't shy away from taking risks … chilling and touching all at the same time. -- John Preston * Evening Standard *
Foulds has the literary intelligence to turn the commonplace on its head. -- Alberto Manguel * Guardian *
A high-class thriller … Foulds has a literary novelist's feel for [Sicily's] harsh beauty. * Mail on Sunday *
Foulds’ prose is superb… It reads like Catch-22 written by Evelyn Waugh. * Good Book Guide *