'Sophie is one of the most naturally talented writers I've ever taught or mentored, and that talent shines from every page of Wild Fires. This is a gem of a book: beautifully crafted, emotionally insightful, and full of sharply-drawn characters who linger long in the memory. Sophie is a literary star in the making' LAURA BARNETT #1 bestselling author of The Versions of Us
'It's an immersive story with everything I love in a book. It's an incredibly intimate, tender story about grief, mourning, silences and secrets, loss, identity, love, sisters/mothers, and home. Wild Fires is bursting with silences and thick with characters emboldened by the dark, creeping in corridors at night, saying things they cannot say in the light. It reminds readers that families are often messy, tangled webs, thinly tied together with strings of the past that at any moment can unravel and leave us all spiralling. I'm hooked' YVONNE BATTLE-FELTON, author of Remembered
'I enjoyed it so much - one of my favourite things in literature is to be transported to a different place, ideally straight into the heart of a family whose history and characters are as alive while I?m reading as my own, and that was the experience that Wild Fires gave me. It reminded me of The God of Small Things, with the same intricate, confounding but completely relatable family relationships, secrets and darkness; I loved the rhythm of the language and the sharpness of the (often unexpectedly funny) observations ... a beautiful book' EMILY ITAMI, author of Fault Lines
'A moving and compelling novel that explores a family's grief through both their shared stories and the words that should have stayed unspoken' LOUISE HARE, author of This Lovely City
There's so much beauty in this book ... I finished the last page with my eyes wet and my heart full' DIANA FITZGERALD BRYDEN, author of No Place Strange
