This woman is a profound writer
- Richard Ford,
Kennedy has now proved that she is one of the few young writers to have found a distinctive voice, one that we could recognise even from a couple of sentences; and that in itself is already a considerable achievement
- Jonathan Coe, Mail on Sunday
Powerful, acute and wholly convincing
Sunday Times
Great short stories are rare if not rarer than great poems and the fact that a handful here possess great magical quality is remarkable... A. L. Kennedy is a writer of original and beguiling diction
- Alan Taylor, Scotland on Sunday
Funny, deadpan, angry, tender and despairing
Elle