More Than You Can Say

Critics Review

• Torday has an extraordinary gift for making apparent “normality” look sinister and strange

  THE TIMES

• Funny, ambitious, multi-layered and quirkily imaginative

  THE SCOTSMAN

• MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY is gripping. Torday’s simple prose belies an elegantly woven story, full of concepts that you can’t help but dwell upon

  NEWS OF THE WORLD

• A thrilling read

  PRIMA

• A dark thriller scenario, where unlikely events follow hot on the heels of each other to create a hectic narrative

  METRO

• Torday’s prose whips along in this involving, enjoyable novel

  VOGUE

• There are good reasons why Torday has found success, as this novel shows. There’s real substance to the characterisation…a keenness to incorporate the dark and the serious…and to engage with contemporary politics and issues. Above all, there’s his desire to entertain and to keep his readers turning those pages

  GUARDIAN

• Written with confidence and dry humour, it’s engaging and funny

  BIG ISSUE

• In MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY, Torday darkens things…dealing with subject matters such as terrorism, war and post-traumatic stress disorder

  INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

• Thought-provoking and hugely entertaining

  GOOD BOOK GUIDE

• In part an intelligent homage to John Buchan, the book is propelled by a thrillerish plot while at the same time making room for an exploration of its unhappy protagonist’s life

  THE TABLET

• Paul Torday adroitly builds tension in Gaunt’s current caper and the unravelling of his life in the past

  TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

• Torday keeps the story moving and tightly knit; he writes in detailed, engaging prose

  THE SCOTSMAN

• An entertaining book

  SPECTATOR