An extraordinary, uplifting book . . . This is a book you could dip into if you had no knowledge of Cave at all, just to find someone unafraid to ask all the big questions: what is grief? What is forgiveness? . . . Everyday carnage has brought forth a book of hope and freedom and life" ― Daily Telegraph "This beautiful book is a lament, a celebration, a howl, a secular prayer, a call to arms, a meditation & an exquisite articulation of the human condition. It will take your breath away" -- RACHEL CLARKE ― Observer "Illuminating . . . a great deal of beauty in Cave's descriptions of the "strange reckless power" that comes when the worst has happened . . . if it meets a need for Cave, it also feels like a gift to the reader" ― Sunday Times "An absolutely wonderful book. I don't think I've ever read so integrated and searching an engagement with how faith works, how creativity works, and how grief is bound up with both" -- ROWAN WILLIAMS "A masterpiece" ― The Age "Faith, Hope and Carnage redefines the potential potency of a memoir, creating a bold, brave and brilliant book that deserves to be read, reread and cherished as an illuminating reflection of how we haven't developed the vocabulary to adequately explore death and its aftermath" ― Irish Times "Ultimately enriching . . . suffused with love, teeming with ideas" ― Guardian "The most compelling book of the year - raw pain and struggle thought through and explored with rare courage" ― New Statesman, Books of the Year "Immensely eloquent and wise . . . a tender guide to the transformative potential of grief" ― Telegraph, Best Music Books of 2022 "Cave is one hell of a writer . . . An extraordinary, one-of-a-kind book . . . Cave is a miraculously fluent talker, incapable of a dull line. Many of the sentences have an aphoristic punch . . . It is impossible to overstate how unusual it is to find this depth of self-analysis and wisdom from a rock musician. Faith, Hope and Carnage makes most rock memoirs look like skips full of rusty anecdotes and grudges" -- DORIAN LYNSKEY ― UnHerd
