Jane Shilling

Praise for The Stranger in the Mirror

Shilling's thoughts on love and ageing are so wise and so memorably expressed that they would grace a literary novel... Shilling's mild obsession with control and with the delicate, the exquisite and the theatricall ...

New Statesman

I loved this book so much I gulped it down in just two sittings... Jane Shilling is a peerlessly elegant and evocative writer

Libby Purves, Mail on Sunday

Shilling is a gorgeous writer and there are chunks of this book that I would happily steal... If this woman wrote a novel I would buy it in a heartbeat... Shilling puts the ageing process under the microscope and, a ...

Jenny Eclair, Observer

Shilling's thoughts on love and ageing are so wise and so memorably expressed that they would grace a literary novel... Shilling's mild obsession with control and with the delicate, the exquisite and the theatricall ...

New Statesman

I loved this book so much I gulped it down in just two sittings... Jane Shilling is a peerlessly elegant and evocative writer

Libby Purves, Mail on Sunday

Shilling is a gorgeous writer and there are chunks of this book that I would happily steal... If this woman wrote a novel I would buy it in a heartbeat... Shilling puts the ageing process under the microscope and, a ...

Jenny Eclair, Observer

Shilling's thoughts on love and ageing are so wise and so memorably expressed that they would grace a literary novel... Shilling's mild obsession with control and with the delicate, the exquisite and the theatricall ...

New Statesman

I loved this book so much I gulped it down in just two sittings... Jane Shilling is a peerlessly elegant and evocative writer

Libby Purves, Mail on Sunday

Shilling is a gorgeous writer and there are chunks of this book that I would happily steal... If this woman wrote a novel I would buy it in a heartbeat... Shilling puts the ageing process under the microscope and, a ...

Jenny Eclair, Observer