MixedThe Times (UK)A bleak, funny vision of a future where our sad world gets a lot worse ... The ideas animating the novel might be weird, but Murata’s flat style, and the disappointing final pages, leave Vanishing World feeling a little bloodless. It reads at times like an overstretched thought experiment of societal collapse, a social conservative’s nightmare of the death of the family unit.
Eliza Clark
MixedThe Sunday Times (UK)Clark is sharper when she’s less naturalistic ... The main problem with She’s Always Hungry [is that]...the worst possible thing always happens.
Sarah Hall
PositiveProspect MagazineThe book powerfully examines how disaster can remake people. Hall’s writing is sensual and urgent throughout.
