Cloudless

Deeply moving ... Set on a hill farm in north Wales, the cycles of the natural world are rendered with the same power and exactitude as the human dramas of love and loss which exist alongside them. Beautiful and unflinching, Cloudless is a phenomenal debut. * Anna Hope * Dastur skillfully weaves a story about love and war, family and nation, addiction and recovery, all with intelligence, sensitivity and a huge heart. A must read * Paul McVeigh, author of The Good Son * Elegant and quietly devastating ... Dastur affords his characters such grace and complexity that they transcend fiction to become people you feel that you know and care for deeply * Melissa Fu, author of Peach Blossom Spring * An accomplished, breathtaking debut novel that sweeps the reader into the hearts and minds of its characters. With muscular, precise prose, Dastur lays out the complexities hidden in the heart of a family ... The narrative is so superbly crafted and the characters so thoroughly integrated within their own landscape that the novel feels like a meeting of minds ... A wonderful work of craftsmanship and a complex, beautifully written debut * Catherine Menon, author of Fragile Monsters * A tender portrait of a family struggling to stay afloat ... It’s beautifully written and the characters are very well drawn. The tension builds slowly as each of their emotional landscapes becomes increasingly difficult to bear ... A very assured debut * Catherine Airey, author of Confessions *