`Now, finally, her clear-headed brilliance seems to be on a steep upward popularity curve ... a treat ... the sparky, considered voice of a world-class observer of humanity' Isabel Berwick, Financial Times
`This definitive collection is a welcome reminder of her remarkable talent.' Dinah Birch, TLS
`Feel timeless because she understands, as she writes ... "We are human beings, not rational ones." 'New York Times
`Her writing requires the sort of sustained attention she believed art deserved, but her relationship with her reader is always reciprocal' - Lauren Oyler, Harper's Review
` One feels smarter and more pulled together after reading them. . . A remarkable writer ' --Stephanie Merritt, Observer
`The sort of keen wit and perception found in Margaret Drabble and Elizabeth Bowen ... startlingly fresh and revealing in their poise, sting, and compassion.' Mia Levitin, Irish Times
`Devastation - in love and war - is the subject and the aim: and the reader is not spared... Few writers capture it so well: that which cannot be undone.' Helen Sullivan, Guardian