An intelligent and emotionally engaging moral workout
Daily Telegraph
For her insistence on looking real life squarely in the face, I would call Staincliffe the most grown-up writer in British crime fiction . . . her novel is mercilessly exciting
Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph
An emotionally engaging thriller
Metro
Paradoxically, it's their very ordinariness ... Read morethat gets you involved in the lives and concerns of a random group of train travellers, before the tension ramps up and a routine journey takes a shocking twist. You'll want to read it in one sitting
Sunday Times Crime Club
Cath Staincliffe gets into the heads of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary. Her power is in the small detail that builds tension and forces us to care about the characters she's created. The Silence Between Breaths will haunt you. You will find yourself thinking: what would I have done in that situation? As harrowing as it is powerful
Sunday Mirror
Cath Staincliffe's writing is so utterly real - and virtually invisible - that the reader experiences the shocking as vividly as the ordinary.
Sarah Proctor
Myweekly.co.uk
Complex and satisfying
Sunday Times
Cath Staincliffe gets into the heads of ordinary people and makes them extraordinary. Her power is in the small detail that builds tension and forces us to care about the characters she's created. The Silence Between Breaths will haunt you. You will find yourself thinking: what would I have done in that situation?
Ann Cleeves [A] powerful, thoughtful ensemble novel about a terror attack and its legacy ... Harrowing and humane. A real knockout
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