Noreen Masud

Praise for A Flat Place

It would be easy to assume that A Flat Place, dealing as it does in the currency of trauma, racism and exile, is a bleak book. But this memoir is too interested in what it means and how feels to be alive in a ...

Financial Times

Masud's moving work of nature writing is grounded in a vital impulse: our need to bring suffering of all kinds out into the light

India Bourke, New Statesman

Nature writing can feel a bit samey [but] Noreen Masud offers a powerful antidote . . . A journey into flatness might sound like a tough sell, but this is so worth it. The whole book is zingily fresh

Sunday Times, 'Best Books of 2023'

It would be easy to assume that A Flat Place, dealing as it does in the currency of trauma, racism and exile, is a bleak book. But this memoir is too interested in what it means and how feels to be alive in a ...

Financial Times

Masud's moving work of nature writing is grounded in a vital impulse: our need to bring suffering of all kinds out into the light

India Bourke, New Statesman

Nature writing can feel a bit samey [but] Noreen Masud offers a powerful antidote . . . A journey into flatness might sound like a tough sell, but this is so worth it. The whole book is zingily fresh

Sunday Times, 'Best Books of 2023'

It would be easy to assume that A Flat Place, dealing as it does in the currency of trauma, racism and exile, is a bleak book. But this memoir is too interested in what it means and how feels to be alive in a ...

Financial Times

Masud's moving work of nature writing is grounded in a vital impulse: our need to bring suffering of all kinds out into the light

India Bourke, New Statesman

Nature writing can feel a bit samey [but] Noreen Masud offers a powerful antidote . . . A journey into flatness might sound like a tough sell, but this is so worth it. The whole book is zingily fresh

Sunday Times, 'Best Books of 2023'