Full of human wisdom, this is a psychologically acute and absorbing approach to a very important subject -- PHILIP PULLMAN The book everyone needs to read -- JEANETTE WINTERSON * * The Times * * A clear account of the human impulse to forgive * * Observer * * Engaging * * Sunday Times * * I wish that more writers commanded Holloway's ability to write a small book about big ideas . . . His excellence as a spiritual agent provocateur lies in sticking to the essentials of his argument * * The Times * * An important book * * Scotsman * * A work of blinding sincerity and high intelligence * * Spectator * * A lively, thought-provoking, elegantly expressed essay which casts light on a problematic - and increasingly critical - subject * * The Herald * * [Holloway] writes persuasively and powerfully about our need to forgive ourselves in order to forgive others, and how what we're forgiving is people, not deeds. It humanises -- DAMIAN BARR * * Guardian * * I don't know when I have been more impressed, indeed, excited, by a work. . . It answers the seemingly unanswerable tormenting questions in a completely satisfying way -- RUTH RENDELL Holloway makes you feel you can be a better person (but not in a smug way) -- Damian Barr * * The Week * * An inspiring manifesto * * Waitrose Weekend * *