'Journalism of the most urgent kind'
- Financial Times
'[A] devastating, moving and damning account of one of the tragedies of our age ... Hayden never flinches in documenting human nature at its worst - its best is shown here, too'
- Irish Independent
'The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read ... I hope that Sally Hayden's work can help to begin a radically new and overdue discussion about Europe's approach to migration and borders'
- Sally Rooney
'What a devastating book about the catastrophic inhumanity of European migration policy. It's a journalistic masterpiece. Shattering stories. It absolutely demands to be read ... Essential'
- Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers
'Extremely good'
- Mark O'Connell, author of Notes from an Apocalypse
'Compassionate, brave, enraging, beautifully written and incredibly well researched. Hayden exposes the truth'
- Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland
'One of the most important testaments of this awful time in life's history. It is both heartbreaking and stoic. I cry reading any page of it. Sally Hayden is a young and brilliant journalist'
- Edna O'Brien, author of The Little Red Chairs
'Quite simply, an unexpected tour de force ... deserves critical acclaim and a wide readership ... I found this book unputtdownable'
- Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer at The New Yorker
'This vivid chronicle ... may make you cry, but it should make you angry ... A blistering rebuke'
- Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor of Channel 4 News
'A veritable masterclass in journalism ... The most riveting, detailed and damning account ever written on the deadliest of migration routes'
- Christina Lamb, Chief Foreign Correspondent of the Sunday Times
'Heart-stopping ... A vital book for anyone who wants to feel what it means to be human in the 21st century'
- Fintan O'Toole, author of We Don't Know Ourselves