Breathtaking ... A dark secret and a frozen journey through the fraught terrain of parenthood drive this brave, exhilarating novel … Every sentence in Parks's book is felt. The author has weighed up each word and considered every image, electing only those that carry sufficient freight to bear the reader to his intended destination Park takes this emotional terrain of parenthood as both his setting and his subject, and creates something exhilaratingly brave and powerful from its jagged peaks and troughs

Claire Kilroy, Guardian

Another beautiful offering from Northern Ireland is David Park's Travelling in a Strange Land, though I accept that it'll make my giftees cry buckets

Lisa McInerney, Irish Times, Books of the Year

David Park's Travelling in a Strange Land was a beautiful, intensely human study of fathers and sons that I'd gladly share

Brian McGilloway, Irish Times, Books of the Year

This lucidly written and deceptively simple narrative by the highly regarded Northern Irish novelist David Park
is the story of a troubled journey into the self and out into the world again, towards some glimmer of generosity and redemption

Sunday Times

A tense, tense, thrilling, strange and profoundly moving study of parenthood. There isn't a wasted syllable in this short, beautiful book

Donal Ryan, Irish Times

Moving and eloquent - stays with you long after the final pages have melted away

Donal O'Donoghue