The Liars' Gospel From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017

Witty, dark and compelling Charlotte Mendelson

A visceral retelling of the events surrounding the life of Jesus -- Hilary Mantel Guardian "Books of the Year" A very visceral novel, filled with historical detail, clamouring egos, fears, manipulations, the instinct for survival ... Expect to be sucked in. Superb Daily Mail Vivid, sensuous. Alderman is a fluent and powerful writer Sunday Times Succeeds magnificently, superb, brilliant. A provocative and mesmerizing novel New Statesman A series of thoughtful, humane sketches that seek to earnestly put the meat of character on the bones of the bible... An evocative, secular exploration of the New Testaments' sprawling horizons Metro Visceral, intelligent, works superbly The Independent Brilliantly evocative... Naomi Alderman has given us an entire Jewish gospel. Yehoshuah is a Jewish Jesus, the creation of a Jewish novelist; and yet it is the genius and the generosity of Alderman's novel, it seems to me, that it does not preclude an alternative perspective, one in which mystery does indeed haunt the events it describes. -- Tom Holland Guardian The dark wit that characterised her previous novels, Disobedience and The Lessons, runs through this book as an undercurrent, but The Liars' Gospel shows the hand of a mature novelist, a daring and accomplished work on a broad canvas. She is as much at home describing the sorrow of a mother as the cut and thrust of theological debate, as convincing on the weariness of a man forced into moral compromise as the rush of blood in a teenage boy caught up in his first riot. She paints the sweep of history through the sharp pain of human love and loss, and it is a remarkable achievement. -- Stephanie Merritt The Observer Exciting, entertaining and enthralling read - this is story telling of the very highest order. It's certainly one of my books of the year. Bookbag 'The descriptions of violence are visceral. Parts could be describing contemporary Afghanistan with only a change of names... indisputably elegant. -- Stuart Kelly Scotland on Sunday Stunningly accomplished ... a novel of such intensity, meaning and depth that it must be destined to become a classic -- Bidisha Radio 4 Saturday Review