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A fierce cry of talent, raw as a confession and tender as a poem. Polley’s language is mercurial, his humour quick and surprising.

Chris Cleave

A perfectly pitched quest for lost innocence

John Burnside

The Guardian

This is a disconcerting debut novel about how meaning is constructed from murmur, gossip and half-truth . . . Capturing the chaotic rhythms of these young lives in vivid yet unsentimental prose, Polley hits the perfect pitch.

Anita Sethi

Independent

Rhyme schemes and time schemes

Posted by Jacob Polley on Monday 8th June 2009

Here's what I reckon you need to write a novel: decisiveness. I'm not used to exercising this particular quality when I'm writing a poem. A poem is a way of revealing, and it will reveal nothing if, in its writing, it isn't allowed to go somewhere unexpected, the directions to which are not mapped out in advance. I began to write my first novel, , in this same spirit of suspended decisiveness.

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