Things We Didn't See Coming

What makes Things We Didn't See Coming such an impressive novel - and very impressive debut - is the playfulness of the writing contrasted to the grimness of the subject matter

Christopher Potter, Sunday Times

Rarely has the darkness of life been looked at with such buoyant irony, imaginative grace and disarming ardour. Read it once and then read it twice

Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

A small marvel, overflowing with ideas. Scary, funny, shocking and touching by turns

Justine Jordan, Guardian

Here's that rare thing - a post-apocalypse novel that's more than doom and gloom. A treat to read - playful, intelligent and intriguing

Daily Mail

A novel that ditches traditional narrative drive in favour of nine separate episodes, each capable of standing alone as a short story... It might sound frustrating but somehow it works...he has got the emotional intelligence dead right

Paul Dunn, The Times

The familial tensions are wonderfully teased out, the menace of the gathering storm subtly implied, a moment of moral panic deftly judged... There is a much here that points to a bright future

Stuart Evers, Independent

Set in a future landscape both fantastic and strangely familiar, a beguiling narrator describes a world transformed by battles over resources, climate change and drug-resistant diseases. This is a novel rich in ideas and is alarmingly eschatological and sensitive to the certainty of human frailty, and love

Natalie Young, The Times, Christmas round up

Should please reader who enjoys Margaret Atwood's dystopias

Adrian Turpin, Herald, Christmas round up

Impressive debut novel...Amsterdam writes with tremendous assurance and his narrative teems with ideas, repeatedly twisting in unexpected directions. His disturbing but beguiling novel introduces a writer with a striking, original voice

Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday