'A wonderful writer: one in possession of immense feeling'
-- Rachel Cooke * The Observer *
'Roberts writes with wit and honesty.'
* The Independent *
'A magnificent writer.'
-- Helen Dunmore * The Guardian *
'Brimming with delights, as full of life and colour as Matisse's cut outs. Beautifully written with many sharp and original ideas about life and loss and creativity. A novel of deep pleasures.'
-- Susie Boyt
'Lyrical, atmospheric, wonderful. This novel has all the romance of the most delicious hot French summer. No-one writes quite like Michele Roberts.'
-- Viv Groskop
'One of Britain's best novelists.'
* Independent on Sunday *
The story is alive with vivid women.
-- Christian House * Financial Times *
Impressive.
* The Sunday Times *
This lyrical tale of family secrets and self-discovery is heavenly.
* Woman's Weekly *
Roberts tells her tale carefully, in small brightly coloured segments that can't help but recall the style of Matisse's famous cut-out artworks, and with an eye for domestic detail so sumptuous you can almost feel the linen and smell the sage leaves.
-- Claire Allfree * Daily Mail *
A subtle and delicate new work of fiction imagining the unsung lives of women in the orbit of Henri Matisse.
-- Anthony Cummins * Mail on Sunday *
A sumptuously written and life-affirming examination of what it is to be an artist, a woman, a feminist...
* Literary Review *
It's a book to be read slowly, taking time to pause, remember, picture and dream.
-- Allan Massie * The Scotsman *
A tender exploration of friendship and love in its many forms.
-- Lucy Popescu * The Tablet *
Beautifully written
* Woman *