Turn of Mind

A spiralling descent into loss and deceit that leaves the reader breathless. Chilling, memorable and heartbreaking

Val McDermid

Unforgettable

Observer

Haunting and original

New York Times Book Review

Really terrific - ambitious, clever and human

Nicci French

A powerfully affecting novel

Easy Living

Superb and convincing portrait of a highly intelligent person who is trying to retain her sense of self...moving, surprisingly funny in places and utterly gripping

Guardian

As the narrator's mind is devoured by dementia, she struggles to remember the extent of her involvement in her best friend's murder. LaPlante's characters are completely convincing, the plotting masterful

Donna Leon

I didn't expect to get much further than page one of a book with an Alzheimer's sufferer as heroine and narrator. But this one is so cleverly and well written, with so moving a portrait of a once-brilliant surgeon fighting to retain some vestiges of her former self that I was quickly hooked

Jessica Mann, Literary Review

Highly sophisticated and exquisitely written

Daily Mirror