Small Wars

A passionate and beautifully written tale of personal loss in the midst of war in late 1950s Cyprus, Small Wars raises important questions that are just as relevant today.

The Washington Post - Donna Rifkind

As in The Outcast,…Jones proves adept at exposing scores of unseen cruelties that skulk through households, neighborhoods and, this time, a military installation. Her storytelling style, with its combination of purity and harshness, can provoke feelings of clenched excruciation in even the most unflinching readers…To this grave account of degradation—from great wars to small, from certainty to doubt, from romance to resignation—Jones brings surprising reserves of energy and finesse.

Sadie Jones's first novel, The Outcast, won the UK's coveted Costa First Novel Award and was a finalist for the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She lives in London.