A restrained tour-de-force, profoundly unsettling, brilliantly executed, and deeply humane - Emily St John Mandel on The FollowersA great surging shout of a novel - Guardian, on The FollowersSuspenseful, compassionate, remarkable - Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Runaways, on The Followers A deeply involving study of a controlling father and the devastation he wreaks. Wait evokes the isolated community where the violence unfolds with startling realism and compassion . A wise and moving novel. - Polly Clark Rebecca Wait is a master pageturner - BuchkulturRebecca Wait moves between psychological novel, family novel and crime thriller . And remains as effectively sparse as the landscape of the Hebrides itself . Everything only rock and heath, moor and sea, in between fate, human - Berliner Zeitung Our Fathers is a compelling and insightful exploration of the way the effects of an atrocity ripple out to affect an entire community. Wait has the gift of finding the universal truths in extreme events and making them live on the page. Precise, restrained and disarmingly funny, this novel beguiles, shocks and charms.

In clear and tight writing, this is the riveting story of a few moments of violence and the decades of impact that follows. The novels makes very human what would otherwise be a headline. This is a writer to watch .