The Small Hours

The Small Hours excites with refined delights ... Boyt's economical prose remains elegantly polished, her descriptions of the subtleties of psychotherapy spine-tingling ... A meaty yet accessible novel possessing great psychological rigour -- Lucy Beresford Sunday Times Boyt is a compassionate chronicler of the human heart ... The point of this novel is not whether your dreams succeed or fail, but whether you're still willing to risk having dreams at all. In Harriet Mansfield, Boyt has drawn a character whose moral and emotional courage is both convincing and heartbreaking -- Rebecca Abrams Financial Times The Small Hours is an absolute gem of a novel: exquisite, diamond-bright and lacerating to the hardest of hearts -- Amanda Craig Literary Review