"Levy provides fragmentary glimpses into the fascinating lives of people at odds with their surroundings and profoundly disturbed by their previous experiences. Edgy, unsettling, and intoxicating." -- starred review, Library Journal

"A good short story has to be brief, with few characters, artistic jumps and artistic elisions (that make us think we are missing nothing). And, I believe, must contain a good swatch of poetry in its prose. If those are the paradigms, then Levy seems to makes it into the near-genius class." --The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities (RALPH magazine)

"[Levy's] precision and unusual imagination are well suited to the short story form . . . . Levy's talent is evident throughout--though the stories themselves can be unsettling, their evocative language invites the reader to settle in." --Publishers Weekly

"One of the most exciting voices in contemporary British fiction . . . sophisticated and astringent." --The Times Literary Supplement

"These ominous, odd, erotic stories burrow deep into your brain." --Financial Times

"A sexy hauteur in Deborah Levy's prose [is] reminiscent of the voice of Marianne Faithfull. The rasping, deadpan delivery of these ten new stories emit a dreamy harshness at once jaded and invigorating." --The New Statesman

"Fabulously jolting . . . Accomplished and uncanny . . . Powerful." --The Guardian

"Enticing . . . Tantalizingly poetic." --New York Times Book Review

"Levy's sparse, elegant stories are poetic and faintly surreal." --The Sunday Times

"Levy harkens Lydia Davis's undulating, dreamlike style, moving quickly between tender observations and abrupt actions. A character may race bumblingly to answer a ringing phone in one sentence, and contemplate the rain in the next. Levy stitches such seemingly contradictory scenes together seamlessly to create an abstract, evocative collection." --Huffington Post