RaveThe Guardian (UK)Tactile details and a no-nonsense approach make this biography a refreshing change from more lurid fare ... Lutz has previously written about Victorian mourning ritual, and she is excellent on the intimacy of Emily’s writing about grief ... This biography is, also, a wonderful book for writers on how to write the stories only you can, in snatched pockets of time if you have to, and against impossible odds.
PositiveThe Telegraph (UK)\"Through this wise, intimate and questing book, Antrobus goes from being a six-year-old able to find magic in such a diagnosis, to a poet and educator who would like people to reassess how they see deafness ... With The Quiet Ear, he has made a book for the boy he was, but he’s also given other readers an insight into life both between cultures and between sounds.\
Ross Perlin
RaveThe Spectator\"[E]xuberant, radical . . . Perlin writes fiercely and finely about genocide, forced migration, forced education, suppression and racism; but these pages also thrum with action and hope.\
