Grandmother Wolf - Hardcover

Grandmother Wolf contains much of the stuff of the fast-paced action thriller, but Tyrrell shapes her combustible material into a quiet study of what brutality is and does, and how it may be survived...[a] finely wrought, slow-burning book. (Sheena Joughin TLS)

GRANDMOTHER WOLF also boasts robust characters, and examines blood ties, loyalty and love...Twists in the plot keep the reader surprised, and Tyrrell's strength lies in characters who embrace the moral expediencies of war. (Marianne Brace INDEPENDENT (11.8.05))

Tyrrell works her symbolism densely, and it is one of the virtues of her writing that this is so unobtrusive. Reading her book is like entering Madeleine's house, down its dark alleyway and through the ruined cinema, where images echo and what is revealed is all the more haunting for being viewed obliquely. (Anna Vaux SPECTATOR)

The violence and chaos of the 1980s Beirut forms the colourful backdrop to Patricia Tyrrell's absorbing second novel...Tyrrell creates a work of remarkable intensity, in which the conflicts between Eastern and Western cultures are mirrored in the tension between youth and old age. (YORKSHIRE EVENING POST (20.8.05))

Within this beautifully-written book with a well drawn and interesting plot it is revealed how every aspect of the war impacts on each member of the family...Tyrrell superbly illustrates how a young, rich and spoiled brat from the United States becomes an ordinary Beirut citizen...an extraordinarily good novel. (Tricia Summer TRIBUNE (26.8.05))