Taut ...full of suspense...bewitching
- Ruth Scurr, Observer
THRILLING...a terrific book, accomplished in its poised, imaginative storytelling and its vivid, sensual rendering of landscape and character, emotion and memory
The Times
An intelligent and terrifyingly plausible meditation
Sunday Telegraph
A sumptuously shaded portrait of a private, lonely place and its stranded people
Independent
Tremain is a writer of particular elegance and control, and her story unfolds from its arresting first scene to its luminous final image as gracefully as a ballet
The Telegraph, Review Magazine