'Superb, radical, remarkable'
- Mohsin Hamid, New York Times
'A lockdown story of wayward genius... Lyrical visions alternate with fables and farce, history with Covid, in the scheme-busting fifth part of Smith's seasonal quartet'
- Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Guardian
'A glorious, entertaining and expert portrayal of the world we live in, seen by the most beguiling and likeable of novelistic intelligences'
- Telegraph
'Both a standalone novel and a coda to her Seasonal quartet, Ali Smith's latest, set during the pandemic, offers a wise and humane voice for perilous times'
- Financial Times
'Smith's way of telling a story - looping in time; switching from one fast-flicking consciousness to another; tying up radically different periods of history in a single place - and her amused delight in the flexibilities of language feel not only modernist but, better than that, modern . . . Companion Piece is very funny. It makes you look at the world afresh. For me, it turned a cold and depressing day into a bright one'
- The New Statesman