A Thousand Pardons - Brossura

A Thousand Pardons is that rare thing: a genuine literary thriller. Eerily suspenseful and packed with dramatic event, it also offers a trenchant, hilarious portrait of our collective longing for authenticity in these over-mediated times (Jennifer Egan)

Guilt, redemption and the American dream of starting afresh are Pulitzer-Prize nominee Jonathan Dee's themes in this thoroughly enjoyable comic tale (Stephanie Cross Daily Mail)

The American novelist who has his finger on the pulse (Mark Lawson)

Deliciously readable (Irish Independent)

Slickly written and great entertainment (Evening Standard)

Part relationship drama, part thriller, this is one of our favourite books of the year so far. (Bella)

Shrewdly observed and compulsively readable (Literary Review)

A punch in the face of the American Dream, this is a timely meditation on public apology and absolution that suggests you don’t have to forget in order to forgive – or, indeed, forgive in order to forget. (The Observer)

New from the author of the critically acclaimed The Privileges, and featured in Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club and Waterstones Book Club. Helen's marriage falls asunder in a spectacularly humiliating, public manner. Thrust into a future that feels like a nightmare, she struggles to come to terms with her husband's crisis, her daughter's estrangement, and her own capacity for forgiveness and reinvention.