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‘This book’s power to rivet the reader approaches the miraculous . . . quirky, delectable, daring.’ Janet Maslin, New York Times

‘A very sophisticated kind of soap opera . . . As he works his way back from experience to innocence, [Maine’s] tone shifts from darkness to light, ending with Eve’s irresistible, knowing humour and lovely paradisiacal reveries . . . Again and again throughout this novel, Maine’s talent is revealed . . . In his hands, Cain becomes a tortured hero, the character who is remembered long after the bland and blameless Abel is forgotten.’ Elena Seymenliyska, Guardian

‘Maine’s prose is as simple and economical as the life it’s depicting, but it doesn’t skimp when elaborating the basic passions felt by its players, as they learn what it is to be human.’

Dave Pollock, Independent

‘With a modern novelist’s art, acuity and insistence on psychological realism, Maine . . . had me believing in the truth of these most archetypal of characters and the situation they found themselves in . . . Having appropriated such an old story it’s a marvel that Maine can make it feel so fresh.’ Independent on Sunday

‘With charm and wry wit, [Maine] merely tickles the idea that God is perhaps, well . . . a bit of a bastard.****’

Alex Barlow, Time Out

‘Maine has exchanged the compact narrative of the Old Testament for the modern novel, supplying the psychological motives, theological questioning and explanatory incidents absent from his bibliographical sources.’ Matthew Creasy, Financial Times