Angelica Garnett - The Unspoken Truth

The Independent“Autobiographical stories stand on their own merit...” It was originally written as a memoir, and this sometimes shows in too rapid, factual-sounding transitions. But the whole book is distinguished by writing of great subtlety whose precisely caught images and observations surprise and delight...

The Telegraph“The work of a writer with very distinctive gifts... ” There are moments when the reader may feel there is something insubstantial about these stories... but the thought has scarcely formed before it is punctured by some perception of of piercing originality...

Guardian“Overlays autobiographical "fact" on to fictional settings...” Paradoxically, in spite of the signposts pointing us in the direction of authentic lived experience, these pieces often appear both unconvincingly fictional and at the same time not quite fictional enough...

The Times“The stories fall into the unsatisfying limbo between memoir and fiction...” The joys of friendship, its small betrayals and the changes that events in the larger world can enforce on it are meticulously charted...

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