This beautiful, moving novel is vast in how much it recounts and how deeply it makes us feel – Edmund White
Tony Peake’s compelling and haunting new novel makes the political personal… It is elegiac in its depiction of things half-understood, telling in its detail, and a gracefully achieved work of art made more powerful by its quite anger and understatement – Shena Mackay
Gripping and extremely moving… Deftly written and subtly plotted… Tony Peake is in the top rank of South African writers right now – David Willers, LitNet, 01/07/2019
This quiet-seeming novel is well worth a read – David Hebblethwaite, David’s Book World, 19/09/2018
Probably his finest yet – Hilary Bonner, Writers Read, 04/12/2017
An engrossing, poignant coming-of-age novel whose revelation of the purpose of Paul’s journey brought me to tears – Susan Osborne, A Life in Books, 17/11/2017
Thoroughly compelling and unexpectedly moving, North Facing is a fascinating portrait of both a childhood and a country – Luke Marlowe, TheBookbag, November 2017
A touching look at a teenage boy’s gradual comprehension of the reality of racism and politics in South Africa in the 1960s – Amos Lassen
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