'Jeremy Cooper's work is consistently haunting and layered, built on a refreshing trust in the reader to delve deeper behind the quiet insinuations of his prose. His work resists every modern accelerant, creating a patient and precise tonic. He is easily one of the most thoughtful British fiction writers working today.' – Adam Scovell, author of How Pale the Winter Has Made Us 'Bolt from the Blue is a scintillating, wistful exploration of a good career and a poor relationship. Pithy yet expansive, it's an essential, engrossing, illuminating read for any aspiring artist.' – Sara Baume, author of Handiwork 'There's a strange magic to Jeremy Cooper's writing. The way he puts words together creates an incantatory effect. Reading him is to be spellbound, then. I have no idea how he does it, only that I am seduced.' – Ben Myers, author of The Offing 'For a book that has the word 'love' on almost every page, Bolt from the Blue is endlessly inventive in showing us how love is often hidden, rationed, coded and disguised. It is an epistolary dialogue between a life of possibilities - as shown through the maturing vision of an artist - and one of disappointments, expressed through the wise and seasoned scepticism of the artist's mother. Jeremy Cooper is a deft and sensitive writer who understands how to entrust his book to his characters.' – Ronan Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul
