"Early on you are assailed by an image so potently repellent, so graphically horrible that it squats in your brain and refuses to be dislodged." Jonathan Meades
"No one is else is writing with such anger and such power about this point in time." John Douglas Miller
"Susan Finlay has a staggeringly beautiful prose style that belies a devastating viciousness. And, what's more, she knows how to tell a story." Anouchka Grose
"Clinical and subtle, but also pulsing with raciness and heat ... Horrifyingly brilliant work." The Manchester Review of Books
"A fantastic political allegory about a disintegrating Europe ... Clever, darkly funny, unsettling and twisty." The Bobsphere
Splendid… A winner.” Book of the Month at Le Document