A Glastonbury Romance

A truly extraordinary novel. It stands out indeed in a most astonishing way from the great mass of present-day fiction: a very earthquake of a book, bewildering, if you like, shocking, even infuriating, yet incontestably great.... It is a big book, an important book * The Times * The only novel produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevski -- George Steiner * The New Yorker * John Cowper Powys is a writer who changes how you see the world -- Michael Henderson * The Telegraph * I read A Glastonbury Romance when I was 16 and it changed my life * Reverend Richard Coles * The only novel produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky -- George Steiner * The New Yorker * A masterpiece ... Open any page and you can find something wonderful. -- Margaret Drabble * Daily Telegraph * The Tolkien generation's next adult novelist -- Russell Hoban Possibly the greatest novel of the twentieth century, and one of the great mystical masterpieces of all time. -- Colin Wilson I believe that A Glastonbury Romance is one of the greatest novels in the world, to be classed with Tolstoy's War and Peace. -- J.D. Beresford