‘Riveting… O’Farrell has a gift for storytelling that makes the reader long for her next effort’ Erica Wagner, The Times
‘Such an accomplished performance’ Shena Mackay, Daily Telegraph
‘Maggie O’Farrell’s first novel, After You’d Gone, had me so gripped I had to feign illness in order to devote myself to it entirely’
Esther Freud, Guardian Books of the Year
‘Unputdownable, beautifully written… A sharp, fresh talent to watch’
Independent Books of the Year
‘Beautifully constructed… unashamedly passionate’ Guardian Books of the Year
‘This tense, involving and disturbing read… kept me up half the night, unable to put it down’ Mail on Sunday
‘O’Farrell is blessed with a tender, solicitous intelligence… honest, moving and wise beyond its author’s years’ Time Out
‘Harrowing, profound, and beautifully written’ Independent on Sunday
‘Grips the reader from its first dramatic pages… What begins as a thriller grows and deepens into a powerful expose of the ghosts that lie dormant (or just unmentionable) in the recesses of a family’s collective memory’ Mail on Sunday
‘Harrowing, profound, and beautifully written’ Independent on Sunday
‘(A) superb Neo-Gothic ‘whydunnit’… deeply moving… the author’s precise, pared-down prose is perfect… O’Farrell textures the plot brilliantly, wrapping the bare bones in a rich flesh’ The Times
‘Dazzlingly good, a tale of love, grief and dysfunctional family life that grabs both the heart and the head. When I finished it, I’m not embarrassed to say, I wept’
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