A.M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything
- Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours,
If the first major literary marker of the American dream of aspiration, potential and never-ending youth was F. Scott Fitzgerald's lyrical piece of doomed yearning, The Great Gatsby, its postmodern flipside [is] Homes's The End of Alice, whose paired literary voices made a grotesque harmony of two yearners after the dream of youth
- Ali Smith, Guardian
Homes instructs us about ourselves and shows us what we are blighted with, and cringe from, our compulsions, repressions, longings, glimpses of madness
- Ruth Rendell,
With all the cunning and control of a brilliant lover, she takes us places we dare not go alone
Los Angeles Times
Not all readers will want to see Homes's vision, but those who do will find themselves unmistakably in the presence of the Other
TLS
Undeniably shocking... Superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist in words
Vogue
Chillingly precise and almost beautiful
- Will Self,
I recently read [The End of Alice] and thought it was incredible.
- Joe Dunthorne, summer books round up, Observer