You will go a long way to find anything better than this
- Edward Docx, author of <i>Let Go My Hand</i>,
There is simply more history and more drama in Hemon’s stories than in a shelf and a half of the usual dayglo Anglo-American entertainment
Guardian
Like Nabokov, Hemon writes with the startling peeled vision of the outsider, weighing words as if for the first time; he shares with Kundera an ability to find grace and humour in the bleakest of circumstances
Observer
A storyteller, funny and sad in equal measure, and always entertaining
Scotland on Sunday
Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing
Time Out