All is Song

Intense, rewarding and bracingly serious * Financial Times *
Profoundly beautiful, cathartic writing. * Daily Telegraph *
A fine study of the nature and strength of family ties and the morality, or otherwise, of conforming where it matters * The Times *
This beautifully written composition does that rare thing, of provoking free thought, while scrutinising the far-reaching repercussions of such rebellious activity * Independent *
Harvey’s slow, intense thoughtfulness feels positively Woolfean at times. She thinks deeply, and writes beautifully about these thoughts. * Sunday Times *
This is a novel of ideas that also creates believable characters and explores complex relationships. Harvey’s prose is graceful and unhurried, full of sharp observation and moments of subtly understated pathos * Guardian *
There’s still something compelling in the way Harvey resists the easy and the obvious. The result is a novel of both depth and defiance * Observer *
A moving novel about family duty and friendship set against a London backdrop of national unrest * Grazia *
Deftly controlled and exquisitely measured * The List *
How would Socrates get on in 21st century Britain? This is the question at the heart of Samantha Harvey’s ambitious second novel * Daily Mail *

Samantha Harvey is the author of the novels Orbital, The Wilderness, All is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease- A Year of Not Sleeping. Orbital was the winner of the Booker Prize 2024, and her other work has been shortlisted for the James Tait Black Award, the Women’s Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the Walter Scott Prize. The Wilderness was awarded the Betty Trask Prize. She is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

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