"Damage is a masterpiece."--The Washington Post
"A taut, sinister tale of erotic obsession."--Vanity Fair
"The reader looks on with mingled shock and fascination. A tour de force."--The New York Times
"The effect is powerful: here is naked obsession, sulfurous, total, scarcely possible to live with."--Financial Times
"Next to the often-contrived twists and revelations of today's psychological suspense, Hart's spare tale of all-consuming obsession is refreshingly straightforward."--Library Journal
"A passionate, elegant, ruthless story."--Iris Murdoch, author of The Bell, Under the Net, and The Black Prince
"To read this tale of mutual obsession is like being abducted. Josephine Hart has managed to create a portrait of psychological and erotic obsession that is so compelling as, for a brief moment, to suck all the oxygen out of the air."--Los Angeles Times
"The violent dreamscape of Damage stayed with me long after I closed the book. Did I dream it? Did I live it? My very uncertainty tells me I have read something rare."--Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying
"A remarkable first novel of awesome accomplishment and quite startling psychological insight. 'Un-put-downable' is here, for once, not hyperbolic."--Ruth Rendell