‘A Complex wonderfully alive and imaginative- Ms Morrison has woven, among the gritty realities of hardship and resentment. A glittering strand of fable’ daily telegraph.

‘Toni Morrison has written a brilliant prose tale that surveys nearly a century of American history as it impinges on a single family’ New York Times book review.

‘no dreams or tricks no positions or superstitious no accent or betrayal will be allowed to escape as she weaves her spell of black America singing its past’ Melvyn Bragg.