Larissa MacFarquhar

Praise for Strangers Drowning

Daringly conceived, brilliantly executed - may change not just how you see the world, but how you live in it

Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Chilling and utterly absorbing... Combining critical analysis with compassion, the book's treatment is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, who explored the more extraordinary aspects of ordinary lives

Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph

Strangers Drowning is a book written in a deceptively simple and clear voice about people, about how morality lodges itself in a person not as an abstract idea, or even a value, but as a direction for ...

Financial Times

Daringly conceived, brilliantly executed - may change not just how you see the world, but how you live in it

Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Chilling and utterly absorbing... Combining critical analysis with compassion, the book's treatment is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, who explored the more extraordinary aspects of ordinary lives

Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph

Strangers Drowning is a book written in a deceptively simple and clear voice about people, about how morality lodges itself in a person not as an abstract idea, or even a value, but as a direction for ...

Financial Times

Daringly conceived, brilliantly executed - may change not just how you see the world, but how you live in it

Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Chilling and utterly absorbing... Combining critical analysis with compassion, the book's treatment is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, who explored the more extraordinary aspects of ordinary lives

Frances Wilson, Daily Telegraph

Strangers Drowning is a book written in a deceptively simple and clear voice about people, about how morality lodges itself in a person not as an abstract idea, or even a value, but as a direction for ...

Financial Times