"This short, fierce, intelligent novel is as subtly accurate about the aphrodisiac effects of Lesbian love as it is about the pain of loss: and forgetting: and the fear of death." --Elaine Feinstein, The Times "Sensitive, intelligent, conscientious . Dick gives us grace, subtlety, surprises . She also gives us a great deal of pleasure." -- The Spectator "Precise, delicately written . this novel is a quietly telling study of vulnerability, responsibility, and the way victims may conspire at their own destruction." --Janice Elliott, The Sunday Telegraph "[Kay Dick's] mind is a delicate instrument, aware, sensitive, intelligent, alive to every shade of feeling and sensation." -- The Sunday Times "[Dick's] theme, manner and writing evoke Colette.

" -- The Daily Telegraph "Powerful in its evocation of relationships and the gradations of passion." --Gillian Freeman "Kay Dick is a very honourable novelist . Her gift is in distillation . She turns an exact, abstracting gaze on the moments at which one person's existence may touch, or fail to touch, another's, and her concern is to disentangle the intricate dialogue of a passion--the cautiously extended antennae at first meetings, the emotional nerves exposed after later ones . Swift, confiding and allusive." --Anne Duchêne, Times Literary Supplement "Gracefully written." --Hilary Bailey, The Guardian.