RaveThe Financial TimesA Flat Place is a slim volume, but that belies its expansive scope ... [Masud] is intensely curious about the fictional quality of postcolonial characterisations of home and country ... Masud is too clever a writer to offer a straightforward narrative of illness and recovery, in which landscape offers comfort. It would be easy to assume that A Flat Place, dealing as it does in the currency of trauma, racism and exile, is a bleak book. But this memoir is too interested in what it means and feels to be alive in a landscape to be anything other than arresting and memorable.
Jeanette Winterson
RaveFinancial TimesIn her new reworking, Jeanette Winterson takes formal as well as thematic inspiration from Shelley’s work. Frankissstein shares with its source text an intricate narrative structure and a preoccupation with both the origins of life and the things that make life worth living. It is no pale imitation though. This is a riotous reimagining with an energy and passion all of its own ... While the story has a gripping momentum of its own, it also fizzes with ideas ... [Shelley] would surely be pleased with the extraordinary elasticity of this novel.
