Lisa Moore - February

Financial Times“A real-life tragedy provides the background for Lisa Moore...” The result is a very moving study of memory and grief, while there is enough well-placed grit in the plot mechanism to make the redemptive ending seem hard won...

The Telegraph“It has been a joy to discover Lisa Moore...” The passages that moved me to tears were those where the author described not the rarefied nature of bereavement but the sheer mundanity that raising a brood of children must inevitably bring to even this extreme state...

The New Yorker“Captures the consequences of grief in one family...” Moore deftly weaves together the present—can John take responsibility for a child? can Helen find love again?—and the past, evoking memory and grief in pitch-perfect detail...

The New York Times“Vivid, cinematic shots of family life...” Moore is adept at conveying the emptiness that followed the accident, but not what had filled it. Although we are told often of Helen and Cal's abiding love, the man himself remains hard to grasp, which makes Helen’s protracted grief hard to share.

The Independent“Firm grip and fine craft...” Assured double-time plotting, and supple, graceful prose, set the long work of grief against a changing world that widens horizons while leaving old wounds still open. Yet a happier future will resist the "virulent and ravenous" past...

Guardian“A minor-key triumph...” Faults can be forgiven in the context of what Moore manages to pull off: a novel which takes a moment of catastrophe and focuses not on the moment itself but on all the moments that surround it; that are altered, subtly or dramatically, by it...

Economist“Not yet reviewed”

Scotsman“Not yet reviewed”

The Boston Globe“Not yet reviewed”

Los Angeles Times“Not yet reviewed”