Tender Morsels...is funny, tragic, wise, tender and beautifully written. It also left me gasping with shock...It is with a mixture of respect and delight that I greet any book capable of blasting an entire genre out of the water with its audacity and grace. Tender Morsels is such a book

A work of genius, with richly inventive language and a brilliantly imagined fairy tale context... the brutal moments are woeven in like dark threads in a rich and complex tapestry

A novel that explores the most profound human emotions with a clear gaze; it made me weep like a child at the end

A striking retelling of the Grimms' Snow White and Rose Red, told in a rich yet remote prose style, it is, like Lanagan's award-winning collection of short stories, Red Spikes, likely to appeal to teenage girls with a taste for the original and the sinister

It's a rewardingly complex and emotional story told in highly imaginative prose. The worlds Lanagan creates are so rich and multi-layered it's easy to get lost in the book's 500 pages, never wanting to leave

As complex and brilliant as it is disturbing

Carried along by its inventive style, resulting in a compulsive read

Unusual book... romantic, but not a romance, and a fantasy story but nothing like most in the genre... Tender Morsels feels most akin to books by writers such as George McDonald and Angela Carter, with is roots firmly in fairytales rather than epic fantasy

Shows Petterson's alter ego, Arvid Jansen, confronting his mother's terminal cancer, and recreates his indigent, often alienated youth in East Oslo with charitable humour.

This subtly unnerving tale raise goose bumps as the tension builds towards the menacing finale

Chapman deftly ratchets up the tension, pitting off-kilter emotions against a sense psychological doom as the novel builds to an unsettling conclusion

These tightly compressed short stories are deft portraits of people under extreme pressure, delivered with a surreal perspective that oddly serves to compound their power...her writing is superb: almost every word in this flinty, almost unbearably sad collection matters

It's a testament to her talent and her humanity that these broken lives are life-affirming in the way that only good art can be

Kennedy is attuned to the shock of separation, as well as the pain ... Kennedy is adept at different types of stories

A virtuoso of prose

A L Kennedy's short stories are rare pearls, all seductive surface and dark depths

What admirable richness and complexity

Kennedy has such control over her material that it never overwhelms the reader or becomes showily gothic

There's no denying that these utterly controlled stories have a power, humanity, and even beauty of their own

While What Becomes is not always an easy book to read, Kennedy's linguistic inventiveness, wild humour and compassion make it an unexpectedly joyful one

Twelve stories from the manic mistress of comically vitriolic observation

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Kennedy specialises in acute observations of thought... In this collection of short stories, she inhabits unhappy couples, lonely shopkeepers and strangers in hotel rooms to searing, painful and comic effect

A virtuoso performance...This is a collection of stories that will be re-reading exceptionally well, like an album of brilliant songs you keep wanting to hear again

Funny and furious, Kennedy's tales of floundering marriages and domestic disappointment follow an anarchic path of their own

Kennedy's superlative work always attracts admiration