Reviews
"A singular read . . . Levy has crafted a great character in Sofia, and witnessing a pivotal moment in her life is a pleasure." --starred and boxed review, Publishers Weekly "Exquisite prose . . . Hot Milk is perfectly crafted, a dream-narrative so mesmerising that reading it is to be under a spell. Reaching the end is like finding a piece of glass on the beach, shaped into a sphere by the sea, that can be held up and looked into like a glass-eye and kept, in secret, to be looked at again and again." --Suzanne Joinson, The Independent "Great lush writing [and] luxuriation in place. No writer infuses the landscape, urban or rural, with as much meaning and monstrosity as Levy . . . Unmissable." --Eimear McBride, The New Statesman "A beguiling tale of myths and identity . . . provocative . . . The difficult, ambivalent, precious mother-daughter relationship forms the core of this beautiful, clever novel." --Michele Roberts, The Independent "Acutely relevant . . . A triumph of technically adroit storytelling. Levy's elegant and poised prose has the rare quality of being simultaneously expansive and succinct . . . A breath of fresh air." -- The Literary Review, "A singular read . . . Levy has crafted a great character in Sofia, and witnessing a pivotal moment in her life is a pleasure." --starred and boxed review, Publishers Weekly "Exquisite." -- The New Yorker on SWIMMING HOME "Elegant . . . subtle . . . uncanny . . . witty right up until it's unbearably sad." --Ron Charles, THE WASHINGTON POST on SWIMMING HOME "An excellent story, told with the subtlety and menacing tension of a veteran playwright." --Sam Sacks, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL on SWIMMING HOME "Unlike anything but itself . . . Readers will have to resist the temptation to hurry up in order to find out what happens . . . Our reward is the enjoyable, if unsettling, experience of being pitched into the deep waters of Levy's wry, accomplished novel." --Francine Prose, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW on SWIMMING HOME "Enticing . . . Tantalizingly poetic." -- The New York Times Book Review on BLACK VODKA "Levy harkens Lydia Davis's undulating, dreamlike style, moving quickly between tender observations and abrupt actions . . . Levy stitches such seemingly contradictory scenes together seamlessly to create an abstract, evocative collection." -- Huffington Post on BLACK VODKA "I find myself utterly captivated by Deborah Levy's Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing , a profound and vivid little volume that is less about the craft than the necessity of making literature." -- Los Angeles Times "Cerebral and literary . . . a poetic and slightly surreal voice." -- New York Journal of Books on THE UNLOVED, "A powerful novel of the interior life, which Levy creates with a vividness that recalls Virginia Woolf . . . Transfixing." --Erica Wagner, The Guardian "Exquisite prose . . . Hot Milk is perfectly crafted, a dream-narrative so mesmerising that reading it is to be under a spell. Reaching the end is like finding a piece of glass on the beach, shaped into a sphere by the sea, that can be held up and looked into like a glass-eye and kept, in secret, to be looked at again and again." --Suzanne Joinson, The Independent "Great lush writing [and] luxuriation in place. No writer infuses the landscape, urban or rural, with as much meaning and monstrosity as Levy . . . Unmissable." --Eimear McBride, The New Statesman "A beguiling tale of myths and identity . . . provocative . . . The difficult, ambivalent, precious mother-daughter relationship forms the core of this beautiful, clever novel." --Michele Roberts, The Independent "Acutely relevant . . . A triumph of technically adroit storytelling. Levy's elegant and poised prose has the rare quality of being simultaneously expansive and succinct . . . A breath of fresh air." -- The Literary Review "A singular read . . . Levy has crafted a great character in Sofia, and witnessing a pivotal moment in her life is a pleasure." --starred and boxed review, Publishers Weekly "Scintillating, provocative . . . Levy combines intellect and empathy to impressively modern effect." -- (starred review), Kirkus Reviews "Mesmerizing . . . evocative and complex." --Booklist