The Home Child

One of the outstanding books of this year... Although this is a historical tale its resonance is timeless * Sunday Times *
A story that is not only heartbreaking but also, essentially, true ... [The Home Child] is a profound act of witness to a long injustice, and a beautifully crafted conjuring of a life lived as truly as possible * Guardian, Book of the Day *
Berry's novel in verse is based on an aunt she never met... It's vivid, compassionate and, a century after her forced migration, makes little Eliza Showell's voice heard at last * Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2023* *
Liz Berry has given the world another ground-breaking collection of poems. These verses are sensitive and tender, yet the language is real and unflinching * Benjamin Zephaniah *
An extraordinarywork of imagination . . . Poetic virtuosity is combined with novelistic story-telling as we follow the unfolding fate of Eliza Showell . . . An exquisite book * Hannah Lowe *
Only Liz Berry could write such raw and staggeringly beautiful poems * Fiona Benson *
'Magnificent . . . She takes us on a heartbreaking journey, and she persuades us to examine our own past, whoever we are.' * Ian McMillan *
One of the most anticipatedsecond collections of the decade... Enchanting... Berry combines the historical and the personal, the local and international, weaving them into a story that has its own accumulating emotional force * Irish Times *
A triumph. A novel in verse, an elegy, a profound act of witness . . . Eliza is brought to such tangible and complex life I feel as though I've met her * Luke Kennard *
'One of my favourite books of all time. Every collection by Liz Berry is a treasure, but this one struck even deeper. It has universal reach to the ongoing exploitation of earth's poor. * Pascale Petit *