'The best thing a reviewer can do when faced with a novel of this calibre and breadth is to
urge you to read it for yourselves . . . Hill's talents as a writer are so abundant . . . The
Nix is ra novel about growing up . . . about the two childhoods of mother and son about coming
of age awkward friendships and first loves about the loneliness of intelligence about loss
and mishandled relationships' Guardian 'This superb debut novel could well be the most
ambitious novel of the year . . . [ The Nix ] touches on the 2008 financial crash the Occupy
protests the 1968 Chicago riots academic life small-town life fad diets pointless apps -
and much else [in] an original funny and affecting story . . . [It] seems like Hill is a
writer who can do pretty much what he wants' Daily Telegraph 'Reading The Nix - all 620 pages
of it - is an experience of complete unadulterated pleasure . . . An admirably accomplished
novel' Independent
