Praise for The Slowworm’s Song
★ “This is a moving, beautifully written portrait of a legacy of shame, loss, and regret from one traumatic, morally ambiguous moment.”—Booklist (starred review)
★ “Immensely skillful... A moving drama of trauma and recovery.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Expertly paced... as taut as a thriller... Mr. Miller, with his acute eye for detail and his practiced sense of timing, describes these Belfast streets and this soldier’s experience so plainly and yet so evocatively that both become new again.”—Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal
“Miller’s novel subtly and morosely explores the crisis of Englishness that ties together events of the 20th century with those of the 21st... Not only nuanced and affecting but historiographical. It reads truer than memoir... A state-of-the-nation novel, in elegiac prose.”—Caoilinn Hughes, The New York Times Book Review
★ “An exquisite, tender novel that insists on the dignity of others, The Slowworm’s Song follows a father’s attempts to reconcile with his daughter—and his attempts to understand his own past.”— Foreword Reviews (starred review)
“Fine writing and an intelligent approach to human frailty and redemption make this a compelling narrative.”—Reading the West
“There’s a lot driving this affecting exploration of truth and reconciliation.”—Publishers Weekly
“At the level of the sentence, the writing is near perfect. But the novel’s excellence goes far beyond this. There’s a depth and a sweetness, a gravity... You read what might have been a perfectly commonplace story of failure and redemption with your pulse racing, all your senses awake... [A] restrained, beautifully written apologia for our common frailty.”—The Guardian (UK)
“I spent the first half of The Slowworm’s Song in a sort of ecstasy... Stephen is an unforgettable character, and Miller has pulled off the miraculous feat of sketching a full human life in a few hundred pages.”—The Sunday Times (UK)
