A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar - Brossura

A sprightly, engaging and lovingly written book (Guardian)

An enthralling tale, packed with vivid impressions and full of surprises (Metro)

Bold and elegant ... An ambitious, accomplished debut (Daily Mail)

Thrilling and densely plotted ... an impressive debut, its prose as lucid and deep as a mountain lake (New York Times)

A haunting, original and beautifully written tale that conveys a sense of profound alienation, and of other realities (Paul Torday, bestselling author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen)

An astonishing epic - colonial-era travel combined with a modern meditation on where we belong and how we connect in the world - I could not put it down (Helen Simonson)

Joinson possesses a touching, joyful quality that somehow suits the fragile, elusive nature of her characters (Independent on Sunday)

An impressive debut exploring themes of freedom in present-day London and 1920s China. From the far reaches of the colonial Silk Route to the streets of modern London, there's a brilliant sense of place in this original debut (Marie Claire)

I was blown away by this debut. It's amazing. Clever, exotic, compulsive, intensely moving (Sue Leonard Irish Examiner)

The title of Suzanne Joinson's first novel promises much and delivers ... Joinson's characterisation is finely drawn and brings Kashgar vividly to life - it's a debut novel of note (Sarah Crowden The Lady)