Half a World Away

Mike Gayle Press Reviews

Accomplished, sensitive and powerful novel...A truly beautiful story about the power of love and family, this is Mike Gayle's best book to date - Daily Express

Once Gayle starts to tug on the heartstrings it's to devasting effect - Herald

Emotionally high-voltage novel - Metro

Mike Gayle's writing is wise, compassionate and prone to making you cry. - Daily Express

I defy you not to shed a tear at this beautiful story... a touching and life-affirming read. - Prima

Once Gayle starts to tug on the heartstrings it's to devasting effect - Herald

We're huge Mike Gayle fans ... and his latest book is one of his best - Heat

Brilliant characters and a beautiful story - Prima

Gayle writes beautifully about fractured families and the unshakable power of love, in a book that is both heart-wrenching and uplifting, and full of the deeply relatable characters for which he's so well-known. This is a triumph of a novel, true and heartfelt, and you'll be in floods when you reach the poignant final page. -- Rosie Walsh, author of The Man Who Didn't Call

This book is a treasure, written from the heart. -- Alice Peterson

HALF A WORLD AWAY is heartbreakingly lovely. Its main characters came to feel like friends of mine, and the book is full of such warmth and love. It truly captured my heart. -- Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare

He has a wonderful way of lifting the reader up while tugging at our heart strings at the same time. A lovely story about what family really means... -- Fionnuala Kearney

Mike Gayle's writing is wise, compassionate and prone to making you cry - Sunday Express

HALF A WORLD AWAY is heartbreaking and beautiful, full of poignant moments and characters you fall for from page one. I couldn't put it down. -- Libby Page, author of The Lido

Gayle has a profound talent for acute observations. He makes us care, pulls at our heartstrings then hits us with humour. And he doesn't disappoint with his latest offering - Sunday Post

Mike Gayle is so good at writing relatable characters going through big challenges... This is a warm-hearted book that deals with all kinds of issues - class, race, marriage - and brings a lump to the throat, too. -- Sophie Kinsella for the Daily Mail

Heartbreaking and wonderful, a beautiful book about the power of love to surmount almost anything. -- Julie Cohen

Mike Gayle just gets better and better and HALF A WORLD AWAY might be the loveliest yet. -- Jenny Colgan, author of The Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After Emotionally high-voltage novel - Metro

Mike has a prodigious talent for writing completely relatable characters who draw you into their world and tug at your heart strings. HALF A WORLD AWAY is an absolute triumph and a joy to read. Once again Mike tackles complex and thorny issues with a confident and compassionate hand. -- Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things

Accomplished, sensitive and powerful novel...A truly beautiful story about the power of love and family, this is Mike Gayle's best book to date - Daily Express

His most accomplished and moving novel yet. -- Lisa Jewell

What an involving, captivating, heart-rending story. Some books fade from the memory but I know I'm never going to forget these characters - they feel like my own family. -- Jill Mansell

Mike Gayle has such a talent for delving into hearts, minds and contemporary issues. HALF A WORLD AWAY is supremely poignant, uplifting and heartwarming in equal measure - as well as being a real page-turner. -- Sophie Kinsella, author of Surprise Me -