'Stylish, deft...an absolutely fascinating novel'
- Guardian
'Haunting, mesmerising, and so deeply intelligent'
- Kamila Shamsie, author of Women's Prize for Fiction winning Home Fire'
'Powerful...compelling and profoundly moving'
- Irish Times
'Heartbreaking, sweetly logical and tentatively hopeful'
- Spectator
'Unusual, utterly original and mysterious . . . a must read'
- Elaine Feeney
'...the book stays with you, a haunting presence you cannot - and do not want to - escape...astounding.'
- Ruth Gilligan
'Extraordinary...achingly sad and tender and sexy, and the writing is very beautiful.'
- Louise Kennedy
'Wonderful, wrenching . . . full of enormous feelings very precisely rendered'
- Sara Baume
'Elusive, unsettling, beautiful, haunting. This is a complex, devastating study of human relations; a portrait of intense love and damage in equal measure.'
- Lisa Harding
'A whirlpool of memories, regrets and hopes'
- Tim Pears
'An uncanny ability to turn the seemingly insignificant into something monumental'
- Jan Carson