Norris hits this universal note squarely and successfully. Undercurrent is a defiantly unfashionable, heartfelt, emotionally vulnerable novel about mothers and sons, letting go of the past and saying what you need to say to your loved ones before it's too late.

A profound meditation on dealing with loss and finding your moorings in destabilising times

Always skilled at creating character and voice... Norris demonstrates how seemingly insignificant moments impact a life.

Beautiful and useful. His writing untangles the knots that tie us down, to families, to history. He writes to free us and deserves our thanks.

Lyrical, yearning, elegiac

Norris is a terrific writer. His characters not only convince, they're invested with a depth of personality that fixes them in the reader's mind long after the book has been replaced on the shelf... Undoubtedly one of the finest novels to come out of these islands this or any year.

Norris's latest novel is a lyrical and affecting examination of love, life and the stories that shape us

A deft novel about a struggling thirtysomething man's chance meeting with a girl he once saved from drowning and the changes the event sets in motion.

A beautiful novel, introspective and thoughtful. Undercurrent washes with a quiet intensity.

Undercurrent is a profound and absorbing story of flux, failures and joys that charts the beautiful, ineffable welter of life itself.

What a beautiful, heartbreaking, wise, triumphant novel. Barney is an extraordinary writer, with a magical ability to reach into the depths of his characters' histories and chart the maps of their lives with grace and love and unstinting empathy. I always feel better about the world and the people in it after reading Barney's work.

Norris is a novelist of such insight and sensitivity that I found myself highlighting entire pages at a time to come back to. Compassionate and unnervingly funny in its depiction of love, grief, family and our points of origin, Undercurrent is a captivating sojourn in another consciousness. I feel like I know these people in real life. Understated but magical; quietly, utterly moving.

Barney Norris has done it again and managed to destroy me with another book. Undercurrent is a powerful and really moving meditation on family and grief, written with all the thoughtfulness and grace I've come to expect from Barney's work.

A novel that, at every moment, chooses to be vulnerable, daring to show as much feeling as it possibly can - all those loves and losses that make up a life.

The best description I have read of ghosts. The process of becoming a spectre. Fragments and glimpses. Scattered memory. I loved it.

A gorgeous, noirish page-turner which also manages to be deeply intelligent. Norris has a remarkable ability to write about love and freedom - his writing shines a light on the way stories shape our lives.

A visceral, beautifully-told, intergenerational story that reaches impossibly beyond the end of life to the first moments of love, through what we inherit from the past, what we may be able to create, and what we leave behind.

A novel about growing up after you have already grown up. Barney Norris writes with enormous compassion for his characters and the world around them

I read Undercurrent with pleasure and admiration. Gripping and thoroughly absorbing

A perceptive novel about family and how the stories of the past we tell aren't always clear-cut

This tender, thoughtful novel captures the dilemmas of being human - the mundane and momentous things left unsaid, and expectations we can't fulfil.

Joyful

This top-rank tale of beating the odds is full of heart and breezy charm

Altogether, it makes for a gripping and engaging read about a woman persevering against all odds, recognising your limits and knowing when to push back. As well as a complex and nuanced character study, Carrie Soto is Back offers its readers a warm-hearted story of the love between a father and a daughter, as well a tender journey of learning how to love yourself and open up to others too. Between the action-packed tennis matches, Carrie's emotional reckoning and the wider commentary of women having to continuously fight for recognition in male-dominated fields, Taylor Jenkins Reid has crafted another compelling novel that effortlessly draws in readers and will no doubt keep them thinking about Carrie Soto long after they turn the final page

At times, her prose is so engaging that you feel as though you are waiting on the baseline while Soto gets ready to serve an unstoppable ace

In Carrie Soto is Back, as at Flushing Meadows this and next month, there are great rivalries, millions of dollars and legacies on the line. Letting go cuts deep. But, boy, there is glamour

The author has created another heroine we can't quite work out whether we like, but we're rooting for her anyway because she's fabulous

Another delectable slice of escapism drama

Pacy, propulsive and utterly immersive, you're going to want to read this

Taylor has done it again . . . a brilliant and dynamic book about what it means to be an ambitious woman- for better or for worse

With a wonderfully complex character, a world you can't help being seduced by, and an important message about it never being too late, TJR has served up another ace

Frank, funny and emotional

A fascinatingly realistic look into the world of elite sports where driven and flawed characters' private lives are just as intriguing and controversial as they are on the court

This is a well-researched, exciting and genuinely tender book