Evelyn Juers

'Full of intelligence, wit, humour and a deep sense for the oddness of people and the mysteries of the creative life'

David Malouf

'She can soar high over an historical era and then plunge to seize upon tiny details of ordinary life that bring her famous, long-gone people close to us in an intimacy that is almost shocking'

Helen Garner

'Outstanding ... Juers dazzlingly exemplifies the radical possibilities when tensions between fiction and fact are suspended'

Australian Literary Review

'She can soar high over an historical era and then plunge to seize upon tiny details of ordinary life that bring her famous, long-gone people close to us in an intimacy that is almost shocking'

Helen Garner

'Outstanding ... Juers dazzlingly exemplifies the radical possibilities when tensions between fiction and fact are suspended'

Australian Literary Review

'Full of intelligence, wit, humour and a deep sense for the oddness of people and the mysteries of the creative life'

David Malouf

'She can soar high over an historical era and then plunge to seize upon tiny details of ordinary life that bring her famous, long-gone people close to us in an intimacy that is almost shocking'

Helen Garner

'Outstanding ... Juers dazzlingly exemplifies the radical possibilities when tensions between fiction and fact are suspended'

Australian Literary Review