Pop is an unforgettable creation... By some distance the most eloquent first novel I have read this century...If literary London can lionise Zadie Smith, it should pay Kitty Aldridge the same compliment. She has star quality

An authentic, gentle and genuinely funny account of ordinary life... This novel is at once life-affirming and important

Aldridge combines rich, poetic prose with an impressively light touch

A moving story, told with wit and invention, and the language shimmers in the heat-haze of sadness and loss. A truly original first novel

Kitty Aldridge is a real discovery, a writer of precision, delicacy and wit, and her first novel is a rare delight

Farcical in the best sense: Blott on the Landscape is as tense and compelling as any good detective novel

This first novel is undeniably rich: a tale woven around the importance of faith, whether in imaginary friends or undiscovered treasures, and the strength of family

The year's most impressive debut

Like Donna Tartt’s "The Secret History" or a good film noir . . . Jane’s low-key narration has just the right tone to keep readers hooked

The strength of 'The Lake of Dead Languages' is a silken prose that lures the reader into Goodman’s . . . story of murder, suicide . . . revenge, and madness

Part suspense, part coming-of-age, and all-enthralling . . . A book that needs the roar of a fire to ward off its psychic chill