PositiveThe Guardian (UK)Williams writes with a singular brand of Ballardian ferocity – she revels in the wretched and the craven ... It is initially a little disappointing, given the wealth of imagination on show, that when the climactic revolution takes place, it leaves things looking so familiar. But perhaps that is the final sting in the tail, a deception disguised as sweetness – a last test, then, of cynicism, this time the reader’s own.
Claire-Louise Bennett
RaveThe Millions\"Much of the book examines the strange process of alienation anyone might experience as they find themselves with time and space to interrogate their own behavior, private or otherwise ... Pond is maybe best understood as an embrace of all that wriggles in the dirt, and an experiment in uncovering that engrossing underworld beneath our more refined and constructed selves through the act of writing. Bennett, like Clarice Lispector or Robert Walser before her, writes through the dramatic into something deeper, and the result is a reverie of \'fervid primary visions,\' the dredging of a riverine mind.\
