PositiveThe Herald Scotland (UK)Green is an historian, and Shadowlands is both meticulously researched and vividly imagined. The author has a novelist’s gift for bringing the past alive ... Just occasionally, Shadowlands slips into sounding a bit like a geography textbook, but overall, it is a thought-provoking and satisfying exploration of vanished places and the enduring forces that put them to the sword: war, pestilence and climate change. As the Russian army lays waste to Ukraine, making the fragility of the present horribly manifest, it feels strangely prescient.
