Ingenious Pain

A wild adventure through 18th-century England and Russia, medicine, madness, landscape and weather, rendered in prose of consummate beauty -- Books of the Year * Independent *
A really remarkable first novel, original, powerfully written . . . Miller's narrative is gripping and his imagination extraordinary * Sunday Telegraph *
Astoundingly good . . . it shines like a beacon * The Times *
Timeless and thought-provoking . . . it is something very rare in modern fiction, a true work of art * Spectator *
Gripping . . . a dazzling debut * Observer *
Dazzling . . . Miller tackles notions of mortality and humanity to brilliant effect . . . truly wonderful * Evening Standard *
An extraordinary first novel . . . one is constantly delighted with strange and vivid imagery, fresh and startling metaphors, flashes of insight, deft twists of plot and resonant variations on dominant themes . . . a mature novel of ideas soaked in the sensory detail of its turbulent times * New York Times Book Review *
Exceptionally intelligent and elegant . . . remarkable for its feeling and its humane sensibility * Sunday Times *
A true rarity: a debut novel which is original, memorable, engrossing and subtle * Guardian *
Strange, unsettling, sad, beautiful and profound . . . the sense of period is brilliantly handled * Literary Review *
More than merits comparison with the likes of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus and Patrick Süskind's Perfume . . . a blistering debut * Time Out *
The novel's evocation of the period, down to the finest detail, is thoroughly confident . . . a startling novel * Independent on Sunday *
A finely wrought and provocative novel * Daily Telegraph *
Impressive * Mail on Sunday *