Half of the Human Race

Powerful and touching – Clare Clark * Guardian *Excellent and surprising… wonderfully rich… A thoroughly absorbing and moving novel and it is a testament to the author’s adaptability and energy that he is equally at home writing about feminist civil rights, cricket, prisons, art and medicine. And love. Especially love. A good all-rounder indeed – Melissa Katsoulis * The Times *An exhilarating love story * Sunday Telegraph *What lights up Half of the Human Race is not only the Suffragist movement in all its glory and lunacy, but Quinn’s affection for his cast… So often, historical fiction relies on research for its colour and depth of interest, but these are people who feel absorbingly real in their misunderstandings, jokes, troubles and passions…and this makes the novel equally interesting to both sexes…moving… compelling… satisfying – Amanda Craig * Daily Telegraph *Quinn’s impeccable eye for detail, perfect pitch for the nuances of dialogue, and the quiet, understated passion that enlivens his writing combine here to make his considerable achievement seem effortless… The Rescue Man won prizes. Half of the Human Race should follow in its footsteps and establish its author as one of our most impressive novelists – Peter Stanford * Independent *This is only Anthony Quinn’s second novel, but you would never guess it from the expert way he marshals his material, telling a human story in a literate, intelligent way… The real guts of the book can be found in the character of Connie. She is sprightly, impulsive, independent-minded… You really care what happens to her.…an exhilarating love story – David Robson * Daily Telegraph *Enthralling… In effortlessly fluent prose, Quinn keeps you riveted until the very end – Simon Humphreys * Mail on Sunday *Beautifully constructed – Peter Wilby * Observer *Few books boast a suffragette heroine and a professional cricket hero but Anthony Quinn’s second novel pulls off such a strange pairing because it is old-fashioned in a very good way… Quinn memorably foregrounds the humanity of the characters…and tells their stories wonderfully * Metro *A highly readable book about love, loyalty and integrity – Kathy Stephenson * Daily Mail *

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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