PRAISE FOR SIPSWORTH

"Simon Van Booy has performed another small literary miracle....trenchant and beautiful....countless passages beguile and move us."
--Washington Post

"A gorgeously odd tale about finding yourself again, unexpectedly. If you want a little piece of joy in your reading life, buy it."

--Jojo Moyes

"In its quiet, loving way, Sipsworth feels as rare and special as a friend."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Sipsworth is a love story about a woman and a mouse. Reason suggests that such a relationship couldn't possibly work, and yet I found myself pulling for this unlikely duo on every page. Simon Van Booy's characters are loaded with charm, resilience, and the deep desire for connection that all mammals share. I loved it."
--Ann Patchett

"A memorable story about serendipity--and what can happen when we keep our hearts open to surprise."
--Christian Science Monitor

"Whimsical, beautifully detailed, and filled with heart, Sipsworth is a slim, sparkling jewel of a novel."
--Christina Baker Kline

"Enchanting . . . fresh and often funny, thanks to the author's artful prose."
--Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

"Charming . . . generous . . . vibrant . . . reveal[s] something profound about the human need for connection."
--Foreword Reviews (starred review)

"Hypnotic prose . . . a surprising and heartwarming tale about loss and love . . . an extraordinary work of fiction based in everyday humanity."
--Joan Baum, Baum on Books, WSHU Public Radio

"Through tears, laughter, joy, and pain, I just couldn't stop reading this novel about friendship and second chances. Sipsworth is a marvel--storytelling at its absolute finest."
--Marc Levy

ALSO BY SIMON VAN BOOY

The Presence of Absence

"Flows with depth and power....From its outset, The Presence of Absence runs blood-rich with declarations that make you inhale sharply....wide-open wonder."
--Washington Post

"Rich in setting and emotion. As ever with Van Booy, the reader is in good hands."

--Publishers Weekly

"Simon Van Booy electrifyingly combines story with parable. The Presence of Absence boggles and reverberates: wise, witty and always breathtakingly beautiful."
--San Francisco Chronicle, Best Fiction of the Year

"With its elegant passages on love and the fallibility of memory . . . this indelible portrait of transience, sorrow and hope will move readers."
--Shelf Awareness

Night Came with Many Stars

"It is a heartbreaking book, a gorgeous book...In Night Came with Many Stars, Van Booy finds the weakness, grace and beauty of common lives fully lived."
--NPR, "Books We Love"

"Not to miss!"
--USA Today

"Kindness and raw luck undergird Night Came with Many Stars--echoing the trials and windfalls of Oliver Twist or David Copperfield. And like Dickens's young heroes, Van Booy's determined souls act with their whole hearts--as does this brave, fierce novel--to earn what good may come."
--Boston Globe

"Van Booy is a beautiful storyteller, and his latest offering is no exception."
--New York Post, "Best new books"