“A moving meditation on art, love and home … Barr mingles comedy and tragedy with wonderful fluidity.” —The Guardian

“A novel that brims over with generosity and warmth.” —The Observer

“Barr tells his story with verve and economy and on-point dramatic instinct.” —The Financial Times

“Deeply affecting … A vivid and moving portrait.” —The Times

“Barr proves that Glasgow has many stories to tell. A funny, charming book that crackles with creative rebellion. It is a pleasure to read and there is real joy in discovering the forgotten history of these working-class antiheroes.”—Douglas Stuart

“A full-blown treat, historical fiction that brings to life unjustly neglected figures of queer art.”—Patrick Gale

"The Two Roberts is the greatest and truest story of two male lovers I have ever read." —Russell T. Davies

“Working-class life and artistic Bohemia collide in this novel of all-consuming passion and the torture of creation. Brilliantly written, poignant, and powerful. This is Damian Barr’s chef-d’oeuvre.”— Ian Rankin

“We need love stories like these … The two Roberts take up residence in your heart. Utterly absorbing, Damian Barr has pulled off that very difficult thing, to make a historical novel totally contemporary.”— Jackie Kay

“Extraordinary." — Curtis Garner

“Epic and touching, and a revelation in its rediscovery of MacBryde and Colquhoun.”—David Nicholls

“The Two Roberts is beautiful! Beautiful writing. So vivid and alive and human and humane and funny and important!”— Jenni Fagan

“The writing is beautiful. Barr’s compassion and engagement powerful. Storytelling at its passionate best.”—Esther Freud

“Damian Barr reimagines the love and squalor of this almost forgotten pair in this effervescent blur of fact and fiction, and illuminates the Roberts’ careering passion and talent as it fizzes from Glasgow, through war-torn Europe to Soho and then Sussex, to finally land for ever in our galleries.”—Raffaella Barker

“A brilliant and unflinching portrait of love and talent.”—Graham Norton

“A warm, tender and attentive work—there are deep pleasures in its prose, world-building and sincerity of feeling”—Sarah Perry

"A tender and evocative act of resurrection." — The Spectator Australia

“The Two Roberts is a profoundly moving story of devotion and obsession, art, and class.” — Pink Play Mags