The Road

So good that it will devour you. It is incandescentTelegraph

[The Road,] heartbreaking and haunting, has an overbearing, almost suffocating atmosphere . . . you cannot forget you’ve read itThe Times

McCarthy’s novel was one of the triggers for my writing Room; I wanted to see what a mother-child modern myth would look like, because his father-child one was so powerfulEmma Donoghue, author of Room and Haven

The first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.Andrew O’Hagan, author of Our Fathers and Mayflies