Press Reviews

• Essie Fox

  Exceptional... a tender work of art exposing the universal needs of men to survive, to love, and grieve - whether their fate is cast in stars, or submerged beneath the surface... a sure-fire hit with characters I came to love.

• Meg Wolitzer, author of THE INTERESTINGS

  What Hannah Tinti knows about fathers, daughters and time could, as they say, fill a book - and truly does. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is bold, exciting, and original

• Booklist

  Starring a fiercely loving, reluctant criminal and a girl of grit and wonder, Tinti has forged a breathtaking novel of violence and tenderness

• Ann Patchett

  The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is one part Quentin Tarantino, one part Scheherazade , and twelve parts wild innovation. Hannah Tinti proves herself to be an old fashioned storyteller of the highest order

• Richard Russo

  A father/daughter road trip you won't soon forget

• Ruth Ozeki

  Utterly magnificent - gripping, suspenseful, funny, and so full of heart

• The Washington Post

  A master class in literary suspense

• Boston Globe

  Beautifully constructed... Tinti has fused a cowboy-noir action adventure and a coming-of-age tale into a father-daughter love story

• Culture Fly

  An inventive and fearless story about heroism and protecting the people we love

• Sam Baker

  The Pool

  It was the innovative storytelling and wonderful character of Loo, the schoolgirl on a mission to uncover the secret of her mother's mysterious death and decode the twelve scars that mark her ex-con father's body, that hooked me

• Woman & Home

  Their relationship is sharply drawn in this violent, tender tale

• The Bookbag

  This father-daughter story is an unusual but winning blend of small-town New England atmosphere and high-octane action scenes. Imagine a John Irving novel getting the Hollywood shoot-'em-up treatment and you'll have some idea of what Tinti does in this unexpectedly dark book full of quirky characters

• New York Times Book Review

  [We are] carried by Tinti's seductive prose. She has a deep feeling for the passage of time and its effect on character. And when it's appropriate, she can use her vivid language to express the ripping depth of human pain. As this strikingly symphonic novel enters its last movement, the final bars remind us that all of the painful wounds that humans can endure, the worse are self-inflicted.

• Wall Street Journal Europe

  The rapid-fire switching between the story lines gives the book an irresistible velocity that Ms. Tinti sustains to the end

• Daily Mail

  Hannah Tinti's second novel doesn't disappoint...Sensitive, coming-of-age literary novel meets Pulp Fiction and it all works? Yes, indeed!

• Daily Mail, Best Reads for the Beach

  Pacy and violent, poignant and sensitive

• Weekend Herald

  Tinti's second novel is a determinedly literary thriller about a father trying to shake off his criminal past and his daughter's need for answers about her mother's death

• NZ Womens Weekly

  If you like to be challenged and you love writing that is subtly brilliant, and you enjoy a story that is unexpected, complex and unsettling, then you should put this coming-of-age tale on your to-read pile