The Law Of Dreams

"* "A fabulous book - makes history real enough to smell and so powerful in its emotional impact that I had to remind myself to breathe. This is the past, but made almost frighteningly present." - Kate Grenville * "This is a novel about hunger, literal and spiritual: Behrens's prose is so evocative, you can almost taste it." - Literary Review * "A top-notch historical novel: dramatic, wincingly violent, tender and extremely well-written.' Guardian 'I wound up loving this novel. The storytelling is terrific, the writing lyrical, often startling." - New Yorker * "There are scenes that will remain, forever, imprinted upon the reader's mind. Peter Behrens is a tremendously talented writer." - Alistair Macleod, author of No Great Mischief"