ENEMY WOMEN

A Sunday Times Read of the Week and Glamour's 'Must Read'

`I loved Enemy Women . It is a gritty, memorable book, full of the things I like best in a novel - a sparky heroine, an unsentimental love story, a confident retelling of the past. It is a delight from start to finish, without a single misstep.' Tracy Chevalier

`With the eye of a poet and the rectitude of a historian, Paulette Jiles travels the backroads of the American Civil War and returns with a story that is both gripping and gorgeously rendered. Adair is destined to find a place of honour among the great heroines of modern fiction'. Geraldine Brooks, author of `Year of Wonders'.

`Remarkable...entirely deserving of the plaudits it will doubtless continue to receive here. Jiles isn't content with merely telling us something we know already, but sets out to show us what this means, in images of startling beauty and horror.' The Times

`Although Enemy Women is rich in historical research, it is partly Adair's unexpected modernity that makes it so compelling, as she battles her way through war with sharp rejoinders and a waspish wit, by turns fierce, wily and pragmatic ... Jiles's epically plotted novel moves to a beat as irresistibly vernacular as its heroine's 'confession'.' Observer

Paulette Jiles was born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks. A critically acclaimed poet, she is a past winner of the Canadian Governor General Award, Canada's highest literary honour. She lives with her husband in San Antonio, Texas. She has written several novels of which `Enemy Women' is the most recent.