MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that allows dark, half-buried secrets to be gracefully and chillingly revealed
New York Times
A whopper of a first novel... No fragmentation or contrived narrative devices confuse this hefty and engrossing tale
Guardian
Stunning....The story is riveting, the characters achingly human, and the writing will take your breath away....[MacDonald] has leapt into the first rank of fiction writers
Toronto Star
MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that allows dark, half-buried secrets to be gracefully and chillingly revealed
New York Times
A whopper of a first novel... No fragmentation or contrived narrative devices confuse this hefty and engrossing tale
Guardian
Stunning....The story is riveting, the characters achingly human, and the writing will take your breath away....[MacDonald] has leapt into the first rank of fiction writers
Toronto Star
MacDonald skillfully shifts the story backward and forward in time, giving it a mythic quality that allows dark, half-buried secrets to be gracefully and chillingly revealed
New York Times
A whopper of a first novel... No fragmentation or contrived narrative devices confuse this hefty and engrossing tale
Guardian
Stunning....The story is riveting, the characters achingly human, and the writing will take your breath away....[MacDonald] has leapt into the first rank of fiction writers