Scary, mysterious and thoughtful - the world of Jane Austen bespattered by mud, atrocity and driving rain. - New StatesmanNow We Shall Be Entirely Free, a high grade cat-and-mouse manhunt that covers the length of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars - a sort of The 39 Steps with added malice - is pitch-perfect. - New StatesmanThe plot grips and surprises. Miller's prose remains poetic and taut with an eye for the telling detail . . . he excels at creating characters who are defined, not limited, by a specific time and place, not just Lacroix, Calley and Medina but the minor players too. Historical or otherwise, this is fiction - storytelling - at its best. - SpectatorExcellent ... a novel of delicately shifting moods, a pastoral comedy and passionate romance story alternating with a blackly menacing thriller. It is also a book of ideas: about male violence, the impact of war and the price of freedom. - ObserverA profound exploration of culpability, written in prose that comes singing off the page . . . a compelling read and an important literary achievement. - New StatesmanEnthralling . . . Miller paints a richly detailed portrait of a society in some ways familiar, in others impossibly strange - Financial TimesI much enjoyed Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, in which Andrew Miller returned to more orthodox historical fiction after 2015's The Crossing and triumphantly proved there's plenty of life in the old form yet. - Spectator, Books of the YearBoth a ripping yarn and a skilful mediation on absence ... The pacing of his story is excellent; his style is crisp; his apprehension of pain is arresting; and his ability to show people trembling at the edge of unreason is compelling. - Guardian