Absorbing and insightful . . . A gripping and tender exploration of family secrets and shame.

I loved this novel about journeys of discovery, both emotional and real. Sarah Jasmon has a great eye for complex family dynamics, long-hidden secrets, as well as the detail of life on a narrowboat. I was completely taken up with the main character, Charlie, and the intriguing mystery she uncovers. Thoroughly enjoyable.

A gorgeous family drama.

This was stunning. Utterly mesmerizing writing, an emotionally powerful story . . . I devoured it.

Sometimes travel is an escape and at other times, a passage to redemption. From the wonderfully drawn opening scenes in sticky, crowded Thailand the reader feels Charlie is adrift. For years she has avoided the secrets threatening to surface in her fractured family. This tale of a reluctant homecoming, of an outsider investigating the stories no one else will speak of, makes for a lyrical and compelling read. I especially liked the nicely fairytale notion of a mother bequeathing her daughter a narrowboat, and Charlie’s journey through warm-hearted canal communities. Jasmon writes skilfully about love, the unspoken, and the subtle evasions around a family’s painful past.

An allegorical tour de force

Marge Piercy confronts large issues in this novel: the social consequences of creating anthropromorphic cyborgs, the dynamics of programming both humans and machines, the ethical question of our control of machines that might feel as well as think.

...a philosophical romance...the story she tells is at once new and old...Vividly drawn...

Ambitious and absorbing...Woven through this incredible plot line is a magical story from the past...a very readable fable about the dangers of creating intelligent beings...Ominously real'

Hauntingly melancholic and richly detailed

Leipciger writes with great compassion and precision, her language is an exquisite mix of muscle and grace

Writing to sink into. Just stunning.

Gripping from the first page.

Captivating and thought-provoking . . . Leipciger is a masterful and brilliant storyteller . . . a fascinating and enthralling must-read.

‘A curious, surprising and moving story about two men who— to put it one way — become involved with an aardvark and thereby condemn themselves to death.’

Like A.S. Byatt like with a demented sense of humor… [Jessica Anthony] holds up a funhouse mirror to our own political media in the age of spin…with sentences reminiscent of Joyce’s Dubliners and the later works of T. S. Eliot.

A wild ride and might just be the perfect antidote to the wild ride we’re in in real life].

The structure doesn’t so much intrigue as ensnare you, weaving its cat’s cradle of a plot as you lie there, strapped to a table... “Enter the Aardvark” is brutally suited to our moment of absurd political theater.

A blisteringly innovative and outrageous novel...If you're searching for a sharp, looking-glass view into the far end of contemporary politics, look no further. Jessica Anthony's novel has the pacing of a thriller with satirical verve of Nathanael West.

'Enter the Aardvark is one wild ride: a condemnation, a haunting, a song of love, a madcap political thriller—and it is absolutely unputdownable.' LAURA VAN DEN BERG, author of THE THIRD HOTEL

'Hilarious, moving, ingenious... Enter the Aardvark is an absolute original.'