Devastation Road - Softcover

PRAISE FOR DEVASTATION ROAD:

"A truly absorbing read, the kind you finish in a single sitting, and...a most welcome addition to the body of wartime tales."
Rosemary Goring, Sunday Herald"

PRAISE FOR DEVASTATION ROAD:
"There's a world of suffering in this story, sincerely portrayed...Hewitt delivers an intriguingly structured sidebar to World War II."--Kirkus


"A truly absorbing read, the kind you finish in a single sitting, and...a most welcome addition to the body of wartime tales."
--Rosemary Goring, Sunday Herald

"Utterly magnificent. A passionate, intelligent and lyrical book, whose characters are compelling, intricate, complex, surprising people."--Manda Scott, author of Into the Fire

"Told with aching realism, it is the story of one man's search for himself amidst the terror of war.... A gripping novel that will stay with you long after you have read the last page."--Sophia Whitfield, Culture Street

"A wide-reaching and poignant evocation of WWII and its landswept aftermath. Told in exquisite prose, Owen's journey builds to a powerful and yes devastating-finale. The most moving and gripping novel I've read in a long while."--Alex Preston, author of In Love and War

"A hypnotic and heartrending tale of fragmented wartime memories. Beautifully written."--Juliet West, author of Before the Fall

"Conjuring up the confusion of terror and war in which Hewitt's central character struggles to reclaim his sense of self."--Nick Rennison, London Sunday Times

PRAISE FOR DEVASTATION ROAD:

"There's a world of suffering in this story, sincerely portrayed...Hewitt delivers an intriguingly structured sidebar to World War II."--Kirkus

Jason Hewitt is a novelist, playwright and actor. He was born in Oxford, and lives in London. He is the author of The Dynamite Room and Devastation Road.