"A work of extraordinary force and feeling . . . Her strongest, her most imaginative, and by far her most substantial novel."--New Yorker

"With Edith's Diary, Patricia Highsmith has produced a masterpiece."--Times Literary Supplement (UK)

"Edith's fall takes the form of an old-fashioned psychological chiller, but there is also something stronger, the poignancy of her struggle not to go under. She is betrayed by such ordinary dreams."--New York Times

"[A] fine and chilling character study."--Newsweek

"Even as Edith is struggling to cope . . . moral speculations surface about the respective responsibilities of the uncaring and the unloved, tenterhooks cushioned with an enveloping intimacy of character and place."--Kirkus Reviews

"As original, as funny, as cleverly written and as moving as any novel I have read since I started reviewing."--Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard (UK)

"Edith's Diary is certainly one of the saddest novels I ever read, but it is also one of the mere twenty or so that I would say were perfect, unimprovable masterpieces."--A.N Wilson, Daily Telegraph (UK)

"Highsmith is a writer of intense subtlety . . . She probes to the very core of her heroine with a controlled ferocity and single-mindedness that illumines every page of the novel. It is a masterly book, a haunting book, a book that lingers long in the memory and constantly disturbs and delights."--Times (UK)