"Poetically written, absorbing, harrowing... The raw and emotional account of an optician whose family fishing trip suddenly placed him amid the human tragedy of hundreds of drowning migrants is a story that needed to be told" Fiona Wilson, The Times ; "An important book ... I cried all the way through" Tracy Chevalier ; "An eloquent, extraordinary story for our times" Tablet, Books Of The Year ; "A book that can be devoured as if it were a novel, but in which everything is true" Le Parisien ; "A moral tale ... timeless and troubling ... challenges us to do more than cry" Peter Stanford, Observer.
