Louisa Hall writes about the wars waged between neighbors and family members with extraordinary sympathy and a keen sense of humor. Part Jane Austen, part John Cheever, this tale of upheaval in a suburban Philadelphia household marks the debut of a stunning new writer

Every sentence in The Carriage House is full of clarity, attention, and grace. Louisa Hall is a writer to be admired

Echoes of Jane Austen. . . Hall unpeels the relationships of an averagely dysfunctional family layer by layer, with superb truthfulness and accuracy

A perfect book club choice, this is a novel to read from cover to cover in one day

Ambitious . . . intricate . . . a splendid, carefully-plotted, open-hearted novel

A twisted family saga lodged in John Cheever and Wes Anderson

A chronicler of American suburban sadness to rival the likes of John Cheever and Richard Yates

Accomplished, kind-hearted and subtle . . . a tribute to Jane Austen's persuasion

Makes for interesting reading.

An ambitious, almost impossibly wide-ranging book... Where the novel is most original is in tone. If a good writer is someone who matches style to subject, this novel is very prosing indeed.

Hunters in the Snow is a very assured assemblage held together by the questions of narrative, integration, and preservation which run through it.

Ambitious debut novel.

Like history itself, the meaning may remain doubtful; but we relish captivating stories.

Fine and wonderfully original debut novel.

A hauntingly brilliant first novel about how we respond to the past... I envied, as well as admired, this author's literary command. A star is born.

One of the year’s most impressive first novels…Hunters in the Snow’s ambition, scope and assurance…are thrilling and admirable, and make for a very fine book indeed.