PositiveThe Spectator (UK)What Levy does best is ambiguity, and balancing soulfulness with bathos ... Luckily the glib lines are few enough to be overlooked. What prevails instead is a brilliant sketch of what Stein termed a ‘lost generation’ and, most of all, an intelligent meditation on the peculiarly modern impossibility of truly knowing one another – or ourselves – and the imperative to keep trying.
PositiveThe Spectator (UK)Purvis...does an excellent job of sketching swampy settings and folk-gothic atmospheres ... Worth reading ... The perfect holiday book.
Helen DeWitt
RaveSpectator WorldBrilliant ... DeWitt has a knack for delivering acutely eccentric ideas with such intense frequency and in a no-nonsense tone that readers become almost persuaded of their unarguable logic ... While DeWitt’s unapologetically cerebral narrative style might leave some readers cold, those looking for a change from today’s overload of self-obsessed confessional poetry will find her refreshing.
