RaveThe Guardian (UK)A faithful, poetic exploration of the multitudes we contain and what it means to be human ... Beneath the pin-sharp topography of an emotional life, this is a novel of ideas. We are asked what it might mean to know another person, and whether such a thing is even possible ... The novel sings with vivid experiences of music, literature, film ... Many authors describe the writer’s principal duty as one of attention: to the world around us, in all its beauty and ugliness. In a sense, this is also a moral act. Costello does this in all her work. That we as readers might be surprised by the significance and profundity she renders to each and every life is a measure of her depth of attention, and perhaps why there is no greater chronicler of the inner life at this moment.
