"Gripping stuff, Carthew's prose has a startling ferocity" - Toby Clements, The Telegraph Best Books of 2015 "The prose is often eccentric, quirky and vernacular, and sometimes poetic, with a magical and lyrical rhythm. Superb! Highly recommended" - The School Librarian, Steve Hird "A vivid, imagistic language." - The Financial Times, Suzi Feay "'The Light That Gets Lost' is a wild and dangerous story and a beautiful one, too. It's rough and taciturn and frank and, at times, utterly shocking. But it's also deeply, deeply intimate." - The Bookbag, Jill Murphy "It's wholly original, a novel that could only have been written by Natasha Carthew. The camp, the earth beneath, the sky above, are so vividly described, we feel the soil under fingernails, smell the sunshine. Carthew's language is enthralling, she uses Cornish dialect words rooted in the landscape described, and her writing has its own poetry.

" - Matthew Martin, Books For Keeps "The lyrical and expressive writing style breathes life into this absorbing story." - BookTrust "Carthew delivers a gripping story in intense, powerful prose." - Peter Carty, International Business Times "Languid but ultimately uplifting." - Niall Alexander, Tor.com.