A remarkable first novel, a romance of love, of friendship, of family, of land. Frazier has inhaled the spirit of the age and breathes it into the reader s being' - Erica Wagner, The Times
Cold Mountain is a heartbreakingly beautiful story, elegantly told and utterly convincing down to the last haunting detail - John Berendt
'Full of graphic, unflinching details, striking concrete images and lyrically precise descriptions of the natural world, this wonderful novel presents the terrible, discordant reality of life in a war. Profoundly moving, it raises all the big questions - Christina Patterson, Observer