"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
"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