A Land More Kind Than Home

A riveting story! The writing is bold, daring, graceful, and engrossing.

So beautifully written that you’ll be torn about how fast to read it. This is great, gothic Southern fiction.

The first thing that struck me about Cash's novel is the beautiful prose: the narrative is strong, clean, direct and economical … I think this could be the beginning of a long, fruitful career.

Cash adeptly captures the rhythms of Appalachian speech, narrating his atmospheric novel in the voices of three characters . . . The story has elements of a thriller, but Cash is ultimately interested in how unscrupulous individuals can bend decent people to their own dark ends.

Cash’s debut novel explores Faulkner-O’Connor country . . . As lean and spare as a mountain ballad, Cash’s novel resonates perfectly, so much so that it could easily have been expanded to epic proportions. An evocative work about love, fate and redemption.

‘Cash focuses on the gulf between aspiration and achievement, the point where the search for redemption dwindles into resigned acceptance of fate. You can’t help but read on, thunderstruck, as the best of intentions seem certain to lead to the worst of all possible results.’