Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, the acclaimed White Lightning, shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award, The Promise of Happiness, selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The Song Before It Is Sung, To Heaven By Water and, most recently, Other People's Money, winner of the Spears novel of the year. Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in London. @justincartwrig1
Glorious … Cartwright has the ability to elicit laughter and pity at once, while at the same time evoking a scene or atmosphere with effortless precision * <b><i>Guardian</i></b> * Part love story, part grail quest, part historical detective novel … Cartwright carries the reader through all this with the energy of his writing; people and places become so real that even the most fantastic twists in the plot become believable * <b><i>Financial Times</b></i> * Vivid * <b><i>Sunday Times</i></b> * Cartwright’s sharp observation, waspish wit and evocative expertise come into their own -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent * Astonishing ... Immerse yourself in Cartwright’s world of medieval drama, espionage, romance and intrigue * <b><i>Daily Mail</b></i> * Cartwright’s sharp observation, waspish wit and evocative expertise come into their own * <b>Peter Kemp, <i>Sunday Times</i> Books of the Year</b> *