The Rescue Man

Thoughtful, beautifully observed and utterly compelling * Independent on Sunday *
A fascinating novel - very moving and beautifully nuanced and observed - it beguiles with a tremendous slow-burning power – William Boyd
Brilliant…an involving meditation on passion, history and architecture * Daily Mail *
A love letter to Liverpool…ambitiously conceived… He has perfect pitch when it comes to the prose of each period, so much so that when I started the novel, I had the uncanny sense that what I was reading must have been salvaged from the 1940s. Its every line convinces – Kate Kellaway * Observer *
The story has the resonant simplicity of a poem… The Rescue Man turns the ongoing frenzy of construction and destruction into a quietly powerful metaphor of how we grow up * Guardian *
An excellent debut…a moving and powerfully told story of late coming-of-age and redemptive love * Literary Review *
Tells the slowly unfolding story of Baines’ journey of self-discovery with great subtlety * Sunday Times *
Quinn has a cinematic eye for narrative scope… Like all good novels this book tells us something new * Spectator *
An absorbing tribute to the city and its unsung heroes – Holly Kyte * Sunday Telegraph *
In a novel of cinematic denouements, Quinn has reclaimed an intriguing chapter of Liverpool’s past – Emma Hagestadt * Independent *

Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. He is the author of six novels- The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award; Half of the Human Race; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Walter Scott Prize; Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and Mail on Sunday Book Clubs; Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice, and Eureka.

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