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A brilliant new novel, at last, from the author of If you can walk, you can dance …
It captures the wildness of place and character vividly. A moving, wonderful read. 

Financial Times Magazine  
Molteno’s sensitive expression of her characters’ inner lives is the real treat of this novel, as she eloquently sketches a tale of desire, loss and forgiveness against a backdrop of indifferent sea and sky.

The Independent  
Confident evocation of the islands’ atmosphere, the mix of sensuous beauty and extreme parochialism … The passages describing her characters’ childhoods are wonderful. At its darkest hour her plot has a Peter Grimes tragic potential. 

Sunday Herald, New Zealand
An intense, deeply personal novel. Molteno shows great compassion for and understanding of her characters, allowing the reader to care for them as much as she does. A muted, reflective meditation on the need for resolution.

Arts & Culture Review, Botswana  
Beautifully written, a joy to read … Very sensitively explores what it means to see another place as more attractive than the one you know, and traces issues of identity and commitment in novel ways.

The Independent, ‘A week in books’  
Richly rendered – writing with a proper tang…The scent of savoury new fiction wafting in from the distant Isles of Scilly. 

Time Out, London
From the first line Marion Molteno’s voice, simultaneously cosy and wise, compels you to crawl into the tent of your duvet before listening intently to her bedtime story. … Sympathetic characters, complicated but victorious; beauty, but not without darkness … She has a keen and unflinching eye for the pain, joy and awkwardness that results when people are thrown together.

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